Peter Simmonds
psimmond.bsky.social
Peter Simmonds
@psimmond.bsky.social
Virologist, interested in virus evolution and innate immunity (and how they are linked). A member of the ICTV and striving to bring greater virus community engagement and understanding of virus taxonomy.

https://www.utu.fi/en/people/peter-simmonds
Individual proposals within the summaries provide the title, contributing authors, structured abstract summary ans a tabulated list of the taxonomy changes. There is also a weblink to the full proposal text and taxonomic changes indexed on the ICTV website:
August 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Each year, the ICTV will publish summaries of all taxonomy changes and additions made in the previous year from the seven subcommittees. These are co-authored by all contributors to proposals and provide keywords of all new taxon names searchable on PubMed and other bibliographic databases:
August 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Each individual summary provide the title, author list of proposers, structured abstract and tabulated list of proposed changes. Below the table is a link for the full proposal text and resulting taxonomic changes indexed on the ICTV website.
August 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Each summary lists the taxonomy changes from the seven ICTV virus subcommittees providing a published a permanent citeable record, co-authorship for all those involved in the accepted proposals and full indexing of new taxonomic names in PubMed and other bibliographic databases
August 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
An actual annotation in GenBank looks like this, where the same incorrect term is used. The term "measles morbillivirus" was actually the previous name for the species, but was renamed in 2022 to be compliant with the binomial name standard (genus + species epithet) introduced around that time:
April 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
which is not too dissimilar from an (again entirely random) entry for HCV:
April 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The ICTV has no input into how NCBI annotate sequence records, other than to coordinate taxon lists. However, their terminology is not different from that used for other organisms. As an entirely random example, here is the entry for a dog gene:
April 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM


A lot of speculation and uncertainty about what drives increased C->U transitions, starting with APOBEC3A but unlikely to be the whole story.
January 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Early Burns supper tonight, very tasty
January 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM