The State of Standards in Genomic Sciences

Table 1. Sequenced bBacterial and archaeal type strains having sequenced genomes with and a companion publication

Phylum	Type strains	SIGS	Other	Sequenced genomes
*Archaea*
Crenarchaeota	57	7	4	44
Euryarchaeota	316	11	11	169
Thaumarchaeota	1	0	1	2
*Bacteria*
Aquificae	27	2	0	10
Thermotogae	38	0	1	16
Thermodesulfobacteria	7	0	0	3
Deinococcus-Thermus	71	5	0	24
Chrysiogenetes	4	1	0	3
Chloroflexi	25	4	1	16
Nitrospirae	9	0	0	2
Deferribacteres	12	3	0	9
Cyanobacteria	12	0	0	11
Chlorobi	12	0	0	9
Proteobacteria	3,446	35	169	603
Firmicutes	1804	14	110	449
Tenericutes	202	0	14	39
Actinobacteria	2,413	32	51	233
Planctomycetes	10	3	0	13
Chlamydiae	12	0	6	18
Spirochaetes	106	3	7	42
Fibrobacteres	2	0	1	2
Acidobacteria	12	0	0	3
Bacteroidetes	791	21	17	180
Fusobacteria	33	4	0	16
Gemmatimonadetes	1	0	0	6
Verrucomicrobia	33	1	4	6
Dictyoglomi	2	0	0	2
Lentisphaerae	2	0	1	2
Synergistetes	15	4	0	14
Caldiserica	1	0	0	1
Elusimicrobia	1	0	0	1
Armatimonadetes	1	0	0	0
Total	9,478	150	398	1,948

Totals are based on an export of the Bacterial and Archaeal taxonomic and nomenclatural events in the NamesforLife Database on December 30, 2011 [7]. There are 32 named phyla that are currently in common usage to which the validly named species and subspecies are mapped. Genome sequences are based on those that are declared as types from the GOLD database (5/28/2011) to which those genomes that were published outside of SIGS after that date were added. Cyanobacteria species are based on those species described in Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Vol 1., 2nd Ed. 2001 and represent the dominant morphotypes. Non-redundant non-type strains, bearing validly published names, for which types have yet to be sequences are added to the table to minimize potential for overlap.

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