SILVA database issue

[Gyusik_Hwang]

Dear, All

I conducted a taxonomy analysis using SILVA Databse and the results seemed confusing to me.

I found that Parasutterella belonged to the genus of the Burkholderiaceae family based on SILVA, whereas I found it belonging to Sutterellaceae family based on some studies and other databases.

So, I wish to have your advice on the dispcrepancy.

Thanks,

Gyusik Hwang

[SoilRotifer (Mike Robeson)]

Microbial taxonomy is always in flux and various databases have trouble maintaining and curating this information.

New taxonomic organizations have been happening frequently these days. Take a look at this example from 2011: Parasutterella secunda sp. nov., isolated from human faeces and proposal of Sutterellaceae fam. nov. in the order Burkholderiales.

You can read more about taxonomy curation issues here:

SILVA Database classification taxa names doubt ?

Hello, I ran the taxonomic classification using the SILVA trained classifier downloaded from QIIME2 resources webpage. For the classification of phylum Bacteriodetes, it turned up as phylum Bacteroidota. I had a doubt whether it is typo or if anybody else has come across something like this using SILVA database ? Thank you.

-Mike

[Gyusik_Hwang]

It helped me a lot to solve the question.

Thank you very much!