For taxonomy based classification of metagenomics assembled contigs, current methods use sequence similarity to identify their most likely taxonomy. However, in the related field of metagenomic ...

Although virus ecogenomics has expanded access to and understanding of the virosphere, existing classification tools lack taxonomic resolution and are unable to scale to modern discovery-based ...

The notion of species may underpin almost every aspect of biology, yet scientists can’t agree on a single definition. Time ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

Carl Linnaeus was probably not the first scientist to realize the inherent connectedness of life on this planet. But he articulated and codified it. In the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae, ...

A species is a group of living organisms that are all broadly similar and can, at least in principle, breed with one another. This seems straightforward enough, but the word “species” is actually ...