The official body charged with virus classification has released four new principles that bring order to the viral world. This provides a unified framework that will enable all viruses to be ...

The Committee’s charge was to explore the feasibility and need for “a New Taxonomy of human disease based on molecular biology” and to develop a potential framework for creating one. Clearly, the ...

In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, a team of 45 virologists, evolutionary biologists, bioinformaticians, and structural biologists from around the world arrived at a consensus on virus ...

Two books launched in June have systematized an alternative method for classifying organisms based on their evolutionary history and relationships to ancestors and descendants, regardless of their ...