Data set with ~60,000 microorganisms

A data set containing the microbial taxonomy of six kingdoms from the Catalogue of Life. MO codes can be looked up using as.mo.

microorganisms

Format

A data.frame with 56,659 observations and 15 variables:

mo

ID of microorganism

col_id

Catalogue of Life ID

genus

Taxonomic genus of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

species

Taxonomic species of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

subspecies

Taxonomic subspecies of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

fullname

Full name, like "Echerichia coli"

family

Taxonomic family of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

order

Taxonomic order of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

class

Taxonomic class of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

phylum

Taxonomic phylum of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

subkingdom

Taxonomic subkingdom of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

kingdom

Taxonomic kingdom of the microorganism as found in ITIS, see Source

gramstain

Gram of microorganism, like "Gram negative"

prevalence

An integer based on estimated prevalence of the microorganism in humans. Used internally by as.mo, otherwise quite meaningless. It has a value of 25 for manually added items and a value of 1000 for all unprevalent microorganisms whose genus was somewhere in the top 250 (with another species).

ref

Author(s) and year of concerning publication as found in ITIS, see Source

Source

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) public online database, https://www.itis.gov.

Details

Manually added were:

  • 9 species of Streptococcus (beta haemolytic groups A, B, C, D, F, G, H, K and unspecified)

  • 2 species of Staphylococcus (coagulase-negative [CoNS] and coagulase-positive [CoPS])

  • 2 other undefined (unknown Gram negatives and unknown Gram positives)

ITIS


This package contains the complete microbial taxonomic data (with all nine taxonomic ranks - from kingdom to subspecies) from the publicly available Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, https://www.itis.gov).

All ~20,000 (sub)species from the taxonomic kingdoms Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoa are included in this package, as well as all their ~2,500 previously accepted names known to ITIS. Furthermore, the responsible authors and year of publication are available. This allows users to use authoritative taxonomic information for their data analysis on any microorganism, not only human pathogens. It also helps to quickly determine the Gram stain of bacteria, since ITIS honours the taxonomic branching order of bacterial phyla according to Cavalier-Smith (2002), which defines that all bacteria are classified into either subkingdom Negibacteria or subkingdom Posibacteria.

ITIS is a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies and taxonomic specialists [3].

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On our website https://msberends.gitlab.io/AMR you can find a comprehensive tutorial about how to conduct AMR analysis, the complete documentation of all functions (which reads a lot easier than here in R) and an example analysis using WHONET data.

See also

as.mo mo_property microorganisms.codes