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Record W4322617544 · doi:10.1139/cjm-2022-0266

Naming new taxa of prokaryotes in the 21st century

2023· review· en· W4322617544 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Aharon Oren

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Microbiology · 2023
Typereview
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNorthumbria University
KeywordsNomenclatureBiologyTaxonMetagenomicsCandidatusSystematicsRank (graph theory)Evolutionary biologyComputational biologyGenomeTaxonomy (biology)GeneticsEcologyGene

Abstract

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The nomenclature of prokaryotes is regulated by the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) and is based on the Linnaean binomial system. The current rules of the Code only cover the nomenclature of the cultivated minority. Proposals to incorporate the uncultivated majority of bacteria and archaea under the rules of the Code were recently rejected by the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. The provisional rank of Candidatus can be used to name uncultivated prokaryotes whose names cannot be validly published under the rules of the ICNP, but their names can now be validated under the Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data (the SeqCode), which was recently established to cover the nomenclature of the uncultivated majority. Metagenomics, single-cell genomics, and high-throughput cultivation techniques have led to a flood of new organisms currently waiting to be named. Automated programs such as GAN and Protologger can assist researchers in naming and describing newly discovered prokaryotes, cultivated as well as uncultivated. However, Latin and Greek skills remain indispensable for proper quality control of names that must meet the standards set by the codes of nomenclature.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0060.006
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.006
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations6
Published2023
Admission routes1
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