In a recent published in Nature Microbiology, scientists have proposed a new methodology to name single-celled organisms, or prokaryotes, which uses genome sequences as types of nomenclature.
So far, regulations to name prokaryotes are defined under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), but this existing system requires new species to be grown in a laboratory and at least two living or frozen samples of the microorganism to be submitted. Most prokaryotes are not available as pure cultures, and hence ineligible to be named under the ICNP regulations, the SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data research paper said.
