EPISODE · Dec 16, 2021 · 26 MIN
69 Background to bacterial taxonomy
from Micro binfie podcast · host Microbial Bioinformatics
There has been a lot of discussion about bacterial taxonomy recently announced regarding phyla, and this revealed a lot of misconceptions around taxonomy in general. Today we discuss the background to bacterial taxonomy with: Professor Phil Hugenholtz, Professor Iain Sutcliffe and Professor Mark Pallen. Selective bibliography: https://github.com/MicroBinfie/MicroBinfie.github.io/raw/45db8eb57d732176449073065dbdacc88a288fe9/assets/Taxonomy_Selective_bibliography.pdf
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There has been a lot of discussion about bacterial taxonomy recently announced regarding phyla, and this revealed a lot of misconceptions around taxonomy in general. Today we discuss the background to bacterial taxonomy with: Professor Phil Hugenholtz, Professor Iain Sutcliffe and Professor Mark Pallen. Selective bibliography: https://github.com/MicroBinfie/MicroBinfie.github.io/raw/45db8eb57d732176449073065dbdacc88a288fe9/assets/Taxonomy_Selective_bibliography.pdf
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