Elliot Lefkowitz
@elliot-bhm.bsky.social
Virology: Evolution, Genomics, Taxonomy, Bioinformatics; ICTV Data Secretary
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From @danielrigden.bsky.social & @xosegb.bsky.social in an #Editorial in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience 🧬🖥️🧪🔓
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The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection
Abstract. The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue has 182 papers from across biology and neighbouring fields. Eighty-four of these papers describe n
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From @danielrigden.bsky.social & @xosegb.bsky.social in an #Editorial in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience 🧬🖥️🧪🔓
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From @elliot-bhm.bsky.social & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenData #Taxonomy #Proteomics #OpenScience #Genomics 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Abstract. Taxonomic classification underlies all biological science and is the basis for comparative analysis of biological organisms and therefore our und
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The promised ICTV paper on species names and how they differ from virus names is now published in mSphere:
“Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged”
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
“Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged”
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged | mSphere
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV; https://ictv.global/) is a committee of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiology
Societies that provides oversight and...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The promised ICTV paper on species names and how they differ from virus names is now published in mSphere:
“Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged”
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
“Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged”
doi.org/10.1128/msph...
Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
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Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
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February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Date: March 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC
For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar...
Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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A.M. - Oh, shit, China can science too? [US stocks crash].
P.M. - Fuck it, let’s halt all of science in the U.S [🤪😵💫📉… 🤷♂️].
Nice one.
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P.M. - Fuck it, let’s halt all of science in the U.S [🤪😵💫📉… 🤷♂️].
Nice one.
wapo.st/4gfgcHQ
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A.M. - Oh, shit, China can science too? [US stocks crash].
P.M. - Fuck it, let’s halt all of science in the U.S [🤪😵💫📉… 🤷♂️].
Nice one.
wapo.st/4gfgcHQ
P.M. - Fuck it, let’s halt all of science in the U.S [🤪😵💫📉… 🤷♂️].
Nice one.
wapo.st/4gfgcHQ
This is not just mere stupidity, it is a death wish for the world’s population:
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-com...
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CDC staff ordered to cut off communication with WHO
The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.
www.cbsnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is not just mere stupidity, it is a death wish for the world’s population:
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-com...
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I know that Eddie and likely those following this thread are intelligent and reasonable biologists, but I don't quite understand this comment and the seemingly endless difficulty and misrepresentation in any discussion of virus species names here and on other sites.
December 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I know that Eddie and likely those following this thread are intelligent and reasonable biologists, but I don't quite understand this comment and the seemingly endless difficulty and misrepresentation in any discussion of virus species names here and on other sites.
Reposted by Elliot Lefkowitz
Before this hysteria spreads any further, a graphical explanation of what ICTV does and doesn't do. None of the virus names have been changed or will ever be changed by ICTV (it's outside the remit). Only species names have changed. This has been explained so many times... doi.org/10.1007/s007...
December 12, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Before this hysteria spreads any further, a graphical explanation of what ICTV does and doesn't do. None of the virus names have been changed or will ever be changed by ICTV (it's outside the remit). Only species names have changed. This has been explained so many times... doi.org/10.1007/s007...