Release notes for GTDB R05-RS95

Release date: July 17th, 2020

GTDB R05-RS95 contains 30,238 bacterial and 1,672 archaeal species clusters
which span 194,600 genomes.

GTDB R05-RS95 data files are available at:
https://data.ace.uq.edu.au/public/gtdb/data/releases/release95/95.0/

The latest GTDB data files are always available at:
https://data.ace.uq.edu.au/public/gtdb/data/releases/latest/

Release statistics are available at:
https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/stats


CHANGES from R04-RS89
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- Based on community feedback, the archaeal phyla Euryarchaeota and Crenarchaeota
  as defined in GTDB have been renamed Methanobacteriota and Thermoproteota, 
  respectively. These names have previously been proposed in Whitman et al., 2018. 
  This is to avoid confusion resulting from differences in the circumscription of 
  these phyla in GTDB compared to NCBI.

- Policies for updating GTDB species representatives have been developed and used
  to update representatives accordingly (see METHODS).

- Format of synonyms_<release>.tsv file has changed to include additional
  information and show synonyms based on both type strains and species names
  assignments in GTDB via majority vote.

- A list of Latin names which appear only in the GTDB taxonomy is provided 
  in the GTDB repository.

- GTDB data directory has been re-organized and the name of several data files 
  has been changed (see FILE_DESCRIPTIONS).

- Data files containing unaligned and aligned GTDB marker genes for all genomes 
  are now provided.

- Tables mapping GTDB to NCBI taxa are now provided (gtdb_vs_ncbi_r95_archaea.xlxs; 
  gtdb_vs_ncbi_r95_bacteria.xlxs)