Data integration in microbial genomics ... - Jacobs University
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58 4. MIMARKS<br />
troduc<strong>in</strong>g additional checklists such as MIMARKS, and also allows<br />
annotation of sample data us<strong>in</strong>g environmental packages. A schematic<br />
overview of MIxS along with the MIxS environmental packages is<br />
shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 4.1.<br />
Figure 4.1: Schematic overview about the GSC MIxS standard (brown), <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g comb<strong>in</strong>ation<br />
with specific environmental packages (blue). Shared descriptors apply to all MIxS checklists,<br />
however, each checklist has its own specific descriptors as well. Environmental packages can be<br />
applied to any of the checklists. EU, eukarya; BA, bacteria/archaea; PL, plasmid; VI, virus;<br />
ORG, organelle.<br />
4.3 Development of MIMARKS and the environmental<br />
packages<br />
Over the past three decades, the 16S rRNA, 18S rRNA and <strong>in</strong>ternal<br />
transcribed spacer gene sequences (ITS) from Bacteria, Archaea and<br />
<strong>microbial</strong> Eukaryotes have provided deep <strong>in</strong>sights <strong>in</strong>to the topology of<br />
the tree of life [Ludwig and Schleifer, 2005, Ludwig et al., 1998] and<br />
the composition of communities of organisms that live <strong>in</strong> diverse environments,<br />
rang<strong>in</strong>g from deep sea hydrothermal vents to ice sheets