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    UNITE - Unified system for the DNA based fungal species linked to the classification

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    UNITE Community • Abarenkov K
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    LicenceCC BY 4.0

    Description

    UNITE is a rDNA sequence database designed to provide a stable and reliable platform for sequence-borne identification of all fungal species. UNITE provides a unified way for delimiting, identifying, communicating, and working with DNA-based Species Hypotheses (SH). All fungal ITS sequences in the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases (INSD: GenBank, ENA, DDBJ) are clustered to approximately the species level by applying a set of dynamic distance values (0.5 - 3.0%). All species hypotheses are given a unique, stable name in the form of a DOI, and their taxonomic and ecological annotations are verified through distributed, web-based third-party annotation efforts. SHs are connected to a taxon name and its classification as far as possible (phylum, class, order, etc.) by taking into account identifications for all sequences in the SH. An automatically or manually designated sequence is chosen to represent each such SH. These sequences are released (https://unite.ut.ee/repository.php) for use by the scientific community in, for example, local sequence similarity searches and next-generation sequencing analysis pipelines. The system and the data are updated automatically as the number of public fungal ITS sequences grows.

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    Contacts

    • UNITE Community

      Originator
      Roles
      Originator

    • Kessy Abarenkov

      Metadata author
      Administrative point of contact
      Roles
      Metadata author
      Administrative point of contact
      Email

    GBIF registration

    Registration date
    March 21, 2018
    Metadata last modified
    September 30, 2024
    Publication date
    September 30, 2024
    Hosted by
    PlutoF
    Installation
    IPT Installation PlutoF Biodiversity Platform
    Endpoints
    Darwin Core Archive
    Preferred identifier
    10.15468/mkpcy3
    Alternative identifiers
    DOI10.15156/bio/587474
    GBIF registration details

    Citation

    UNITE Community, Abarenkov K (2024). UNITE - Unified system for the DNA based fungal species linked to the classification. PlutoF. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mkpcy3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-01-18.
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