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

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**Created:** [March 4, 2024, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-unifying-the-alternative-names-for-different-taxonomy-databases-e-g-acidobacteriota-vs-acidobacteria-in-silva-vs-greengenes/29465 "2024-03-04T08:10:12Z")
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### Author: ![SoilRotifer](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/soilrotifer/32/21071_2.png) [@SoilRotifer](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/SoilRotifer)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-unifying-the-alternative-names-for-different-taxonomy-databases-e-g-acidobacteriota-vs-acidobacteria-in-silva-vs-greengenes/29465/4 "2024-03-12T17:48:32Z")

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Hi @ZhangSR ,

Sadly, it is up to the researcher at this point on how they'd like to pick and choose which taxonomy they'd like to use, and curate.

You could probably leverage RESCRIPts [merge-taxa](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/processing-filtering-and-evaluating-the-silva-database-and-other-reference-sequence-data-with-rescript/15494#heading--seventeenth-header) and [edit-taxonomy](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/processing-filtering-and-evaluating-the-silva-database-and-other-reference-sequence-data-with-rescript/15494#heading--sixteenth-header), actions to help curate your taxonomy.

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