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Record W4409698076 · doi:10.1128/msphere.00020-25

Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged

2025· article· en· W4409698076 on OpenAlexfundno aff
F. Murilo Zerbini, Peter Simmonds, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Hanna M. Oksanen, Poliane Alfenas‐Zerbini, Frank O. Aylward, Juliana Freitas‐Astúa, Holly R. Hughes, Małgorzata Łobocka, Mart Krupovìč, Jens H. Kuhn, Arcady Mushegian, Judit J. Pénzes, Alejandro Reyes, David L. Robertson, Simon Roux, Luisa Rubino, Sead Sabanadzovic, Donald B. Smith, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Dann Turner, Koenraad Van Doorslaer, Arvind Varsani

Bibliographic record

VenuemSphere · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPlant Virus Research Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Institute of General Medical SciencesBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilNational Institutes of HealthMedical Research Council CanadaAcademy of FinlandConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e TecnológicoNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesEuropean CommissionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloU.S. Department of Agriculture
KeywordsNomenclatureVirus classificationEpithetBiologyVirusTaxonomy (biology)TaxonCorrect nameVirologyLinguisticsZoologyBotanyGeneticsGenomePhilosophy

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Virus taxonomy, comprising classification and nomenclature, is regulated by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Taxon names are standardized to facilitate recognition and communication, with defined suffixes for each rank (e.g., the names of orders, families, and genera end in -virales , - viridae, and -virus , respectively). However, until recently, a standard format for species names was lacking. In 2021, following extensive discussion and community consultation, the ICTV decided to adopt a standardized binomial (Linnaean) format for virus species names, consisting of the genus name followed by a “freeform” species epithet. Previously assigned virus species names that were non-compliant with the binomial format have been fully updated. In contrast to taxon names regulated by the ICTV, the names of viruses, or “common” names, such as yellow fever virus or human immunodeficiency virus, are not under the remit of the ICTV and have not been changed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.643
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.032
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.239 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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