June 21, 2017
Pending Taxonomic Proposals
To view (and comment on) proposals that have been submitted to the ICTV for consideration at this year’s Executive Committee meeting this July in Singapore, please see the files listed by Subcommittee at https://talk.ictvonline.org/files/proposals/. Since each proposal requires two files (a description of the proposal and a spreadsheet detailing the taxonomic changes), the two files have been combined together as a single .zip archive for downloading.
May 11, 2917
Proposal Submission for 2017
The deadline for submission of taxonomy proposals for 2017 is June 8, 2017. Please see https://talk.ictvonline.org/files/taxonomy-proposal-templates/ for more information.
May 11, 2017
ICTV 2017 Executive Committee Meeting, Plenary Session, and Elections
The next ICTV Executive Committee meeting will be held in conjunction with the 17th International Congress of Virology (ICV) that is part of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) meeting in Singapore. All virologists are invited to the ICTV plenary session to be held during the IUMS2017 congress, on Monday 17 July, 11:30-12:30 at the Marina Bay Sands Conference Centre. The plenary session provides an opportunity to meet members of the Executive Committee, and to hear reports of ICTV activity over the last three years from the President and each of the Subcommittees. Voting members of ICTV (Life Members, National Members and Subcommittee members) can also participate in elections to many of the positions on the Executive Committee for the period 2017-2020. Please see the ICV Congress program for the location of the Plenary session. Infomration on the elections, along with profiles of the candidates can be found at https://talk.ictvonline.org/information/w/elections
March 21, 2017
ICTV 2016 Taxonomy
Hans Wolfgang Ackermann (1936 - 2017)
We are sad to report the passing of Professor Hans Wolfgang Ackermann, a long-time contributor (since 1975) and life member of the ICTV. If you wish to leave condolences for his friends and family, please visit the following web site: http://www.fcfq.coop/avis-de-deces/hans-wolfgang-ackermann-139243/.
January 18, 2017
ICTV Online (10th) Report Now Available
The ICTV Online (10th) Report on Virus Taxonomy is now available in a freely accessible format from the ICTV web site at http://ictv.global/report. Over a three-year cycle, ICTV Study Groups will update the information in the chapters of the 9th Report as well as produce chapters for newly created virus taxa. To start, updated chapters are available for the Ascoviridae and Flaviviridae families of viruses. Additional chapters will be added on a regular basis.
Summaries of the Online Report chapters will be published in the Journal of General Virology. These summaries will be linked to the full Online Report chapters on the ICTV website and be indexed in PubMed.
January 18, 2017
JGV: ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles
Summaries of the Online Report chapters are published in the Journal of General Virology, ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles section. These summaries are linked to the full Online Report chapters on the ICTV website and are indexed in PubMed.
January 18, 2017
ICTV 9th Report Now Available Online
The ICTV 9th Report on Virus Taxonomy is now available online in a freely accessible format from the ICTV web site at http://ictv.global/9th-report/. This online version contains a complete copy of all chapters published in 2011 in the printed Report. The 9th Report was based on the ICTV taxonomy of viruses released in 2009.
January 12, 2017
50 years of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: progress and prospects
To mark the 50th anniversary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), we have published a paper in Archives of Virology that discusses the history of the ICTV, past and current developments in virus taxonomy, and future prospects. The paper can be downloaded from the AoV link above, or from the ICTV web site.
January 4, 2017
Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics
In June of 2016, the Wellcome Trust sponsored a meeting organized by ICTV Executive Committee members on metagenomic sequencing and its impact on virus classification. Meeting participants have published a consensus statement in Nature Reviews Microbiology that considers the rationale for why metagenomic sequence data should, and how it can, be incorporated into the ICTV taxonomy. This publication includes proposals endorsed by the Executive Committee of the ICTV for moving forward with metagenomic sequence classification. More information is available from this link.
A comment on this article has been published by the Editors of Nature Reviews Microbiology in: "A sea change for virology", Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 129 (2017).
November 1, 2016
Announcing the ICTV Online (10th) Report on Virus Taxonomy
The 10th ICTV Report will be published as a freely available, online resource, starting in January 2017. Over a three-year cycle, ICTV Study Groups, consisting of leading experts in the field, will update the factual information in the chapters of the 9th Report as well as produce chapters for newly created viral taxa, and provide direct links from the new chapters to the latest taxonomic database. Links will also be provided to external sequence and taxonomic databases.
Collaboration Between the ICTV and Journal of General Virology to Publish Chapter Summaries: Also starting in January 2017, Journal of General Virology will publish ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles – a new series of concise review-type articles that will summarize individual chapters from the Online (10th) Report on Virus Taxonomy. Written by ICTV Study Groups, these reviews will provide overviews of the classification, structure and properties of individual virus orders, families and genera. These summaries will be linked to the full Online Report chapters on the ICTV website and be indexed in PubMed.
Together, the summaries and online chapters will become the go-to place for researchers looking for up-to-date taxonomic and descriptive information on viruses.
The Online Report and the Taxonomy Profiles have been made possible thanks to a Biomedical Resources grant from the Wellcome Trust to the ICTV Executive Committee.
September 12, 2016
Eric Carstens: new life member of the ICTV
We are delighted to announce that Professor Eric Carstens has recently been elected as a Life Member of the ICTV. This follows nomination by the whole Executive Committee at its meeting in London in July 2015 and subsequent ratification by the entire voting membership. Eric is currently a Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and has a particular research interest in large DNA viruses that infect insects. Please see the article in Archives of Virology announcing his Life Membership.
April 30, 2016
ICTV 2015 Taxonomy
- The 2015 ICTV taxonomy is now available online at http://ictvonline.org/virusTaxonomy.asp.
- The new ICTV Master Species List for 2015 is available for download as an Excel Spreadsheet.
- A reference that can be used to cite these taxonomic proposals has been published in Archives of Virology:
- Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2016). Adams MJ, Lefkowitz EJ, King AM, Harrach B, Harrison RL, Knowles NJ, Kropinski AM, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Mushegian AR, Nibert M, Sabanadzovic S, Sanfaçon H, Siddell SG, Simmonds P, Varsani A, Zerbini FM, Gorbalenya AE, Davison AJ. (2016) Archives of Virology, 161(10), 2921-2949, PMID: 27424026.
- Official taxonomy proposals representing all of the taxonomic changes approved by the ICTV since the publication of the ICTV 8th Report can be found here: http://talk.ictvonline.org/media/22/default.aspx/.