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contact:
  email: donovan.parks@gmail.com
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  name: Donovan Parks
  orcid: 0000-0001-6662-9010
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  name: AJ Ireland
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description: The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) is an initiative to establish a standardized
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keywords: []
license: CC-BY-SA-4.0
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publications:
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab776
  pmc: PMC8728215
  pubmed: '34520557'
  title: 'GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically
    consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy'
  year: 2021
- doi: 10.1038/s41564-021-00918-8
  pubmed: '34155373'
  title: A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database
  year: 2021
- doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0501-8
  pubmed: '32341564'
  title: A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea
  year: 2020
- doi: 10.1038/nbt.4229
  pubmed: '30148503'
  title: A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially
    revises the tree of life
  year: 2018
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  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
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