TDWG/GBIF GUID-1 Workshop Report

[buchen]

Hi Brian,

 

Sorry that I hadn't followed the whole string and jumped only on part of
your message.

 

By the way, virologists have a code, at least in ICTVdB, the universal virus
database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), I
have initiated and manage since 15 years or so. I invented a decimal code
for the database purpose, which is a taxonomic meaningful code
<http://phene.cpmc.columbia.edu/c3buch.lo.pdf> , because I got sick and
tired of the renaming of viruses by ICTV.  The code is accepted by ICTV and
should be used by people referring to a virus.

 

I wish I could believe that there are still sane people out there, looking
at the biology of an organism rather than the genetic makeup.  I think it is
more important to register the gene expression, the structure and function
rather than to compare mindlessly sequences against each other and build
phylogenetic tress based on only a single gene and not the whole organism.

 

BTW, why was I not informed of the TDWG workshop here in Durham?  In the
past I was not able to attend because timing or travel expenses, but this
time it would be right at home.

 

Cornelia

 

Cornelia Büchen-Osmond

ICTVdB Management

Columbia University

 

47 Glenmore Drive

Durham, NC 27707, USA

Phone: 1 (919) 493 0547

Email: cb2009 at columbia.edu

ICTVdB web sites

home:   http://phene.cpmc.columbia.edu/

NCBI:   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/

Europe: http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/

China:   http://ictvdb.mirror.ac.cn/

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: B.J.Tindall [mailto:bti at dsmz.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2006 10:20 AM
To: cb2009 at columbia.edu; TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU
Subject: RE: [TAXACOM] TDWG/GBIF GUID-1 Workshop Report

 

Hi Cornelia,

Actually the problems we have are due to the fact that both bacteriology

and virology had a major "clear out" - we have working systems of

registration/indexing, BUT as more of the older literature gets into the

Internet we have to also keep tabs on the nomenclatural (and even

taxonomic) corpses which we buried some time ago.

As for sequence based taxonomies, don't believe all you read ;-) ..... but

that is another story!

Brian

 

 

At 09:58 21.02.06 -0500, buchen wrote:

Hi Brian,

 

 

 

Brian wrote:

 

So where is my problem? Easy, if you are going to list ALL names then you

have to comment on whether these names are:

 

a) of historical value, but have no modern meaning

 

b) have historical value, but MUST be linked to a "post 1980" name

 

c) are "adopted" under the Bacteriological Code

 

 

 

 

 

I totally agree with your point.  In virology it is very similar, perhaps

in all taxonomies that are primarily based on sequence analysis versus

morphological/phenotypic characteristics.  I am struggling all the time to

keep the historic perspective in the database, because the old literature

is contains these names.

 

 

 

Cornelia

 

 

 

Cornelia Büchen-Osmond

 

ICTVdB Management

 

Columbia University

 

 

 

47 Glenmore Drive

 

Durham, NC 27707, USA

 

Phone: 1 (919) 493 0547

 

Email: cb2009 at columbia.edu

 

ICTVdB web sites

 

home:   http://phene.cpmc.columbia.edu/

 

NCBI:   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/

 

Europe: http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/

 

China:   http://ictvdb.mirror.ac.cn/