Genome Based Taxonomic Classification

Bacterial populations are routinely characterized based on the microscopic examination, colony formation and biochemical tests. However, in recent past, bacterial identification, classification and nomenclature have been strongly influenced by genome sequence information. Advances in bioinformatics and growth in genome databases has placed genome-based metadata analysis in the hands of researchers who will require taxonomic experience to resolve intricacies. To achieve this, different tools are now available to quantitatively measure genome relatedness within members of the same species and genome-wide average nucleotide identity (gANI) is one such reliable tool to measure genome similarity. A genome assembly showed gANI score ofThe accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author