Day 3: Classification and Taxonomy Theory

Phage classification and taxonomy

Some background reading

How to name and classify your phage by Adriaenssens and Brister.

• tips on giving your phage a unique name
• how a phage name may link to a species name (replaced by binomial species naming from 2021)
• tips on classification (for demarcation criteria check the next publication)

Roadmap for genome-based phage taxonomy by Turner, Kropinski & Adriaenssens.

• reasons for removing the families Myoviridae, Podoviridae, and Siphoviridae and the order Caudovirales
• demarcation criteria for all ranks (species, genus, subfamily, family)

Perspective on the classification of uncultivated viruses

Lecture

🎥 Keynote lecture by Evelien on YouTube