The UniEuk project was Kicked-Off this week in Paris in the beautiful Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle.
Funded by the Moore Foundation, UniEuk is a community-based project to unify the taxonomy of unicellular Eukaryotes (protists) and achieve a morpho-genetic reference system for eukaryotic biology, ecology and evolution, including two components:
First, a standardized curation process based on the EukRef initiative and realized predominantly by PhD students and post-docs will generate phylogenetically-informed reference databases of genetic markers with reference alignments and trees.
Second, the generated knowledge will be structured into a universal eukaryotic taxonomic framework, integrating information from relevant genetic markers and classical morphology-based data, and validated by a comprehensive network of taxonomy experts.
The SILVA Team has a central say in UniEuk by Pelin Yilmaz being the Co-director.
We are sure that the project will help us in improving the Eukaryotic part of SILVA significantly.
