How to unifying the alternative names for different taxonomy databases (e.g. Acidobacteriota vs. Acidobacteria in SILVA vs. GreenGenes)

[SoilRotifer (Mike Robeson)]

Hi @ZhangSR,

There is quite a lot of changes happening in the world of microbial taxonomy. Also, the rate at which the different databases can keep up, is getting ever more difficult. Additionally, not all databases curate their data the same way or follow varying nomenclatural rules & schemas.

The following post provides some links about the renaming scheme:

SILVA Database classification taxa names doubt ?

Hi @akash, This is not a typo, microbial taxonomy is currently in flux. You can see some details about Bacteroidota changes. Particularly given all of the increasing knowledge of microbial relationships being discovered through genomics. Many databases, including SILVA and GTDB are gradually updating and refining taxonomy. To give you an idea of how much, and how quickly, taxonomy is changing check out the following : Microbial Taxonomy Run Amok A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bac…