High-throughput sequencing retrieves viral sequences from diverse environments, but these sequences can be difficult to classify. The here developed VITAP is a taxonomic assignment pipeline for ...

Linnaeus’ classifications of animals, plants and minerals has earned him the title of "father or taxonomy." The biological sciences building on the Douglass campus of Rutgers University is home ...

Often, instructors want students to do more than know content that is increasingly complex. Other goals may refer to students’ interaction within the larger program or within the world. Fink (2013) ...

FlexTaxD (Flexible Taxonomy Databases) - Create, add, merge different taxonomy sources (QIIME, GTDB, NCBI and more) and create metagenomic databases (kraken2, ganon and more ) ...

But in the 1730s, the self-proclaimed “prince of botany” made a contribution to taxonomy that, at the time, was just as profound as any of his other achievements. After realizing that floral sex parts ...

2007; Eitel et al., 2013; Simion et al., 2017; Whelan et al., 2017). Still, the stability and formality of incorporating Linnaean taxonomy alongside these molecularly-identified clades needs to ...

2013). How have scientists dealt with the problem of taxonomy for taxa that lack morphological distinction? Many take the simplest solution: ignore the problem. Microbial ecologists are excellent ...