Habib Mahjoubi

When Current Taxids Make Historical Taxa Look New

A taxon can keep its biological identity while its numeric identifier changes over time. Reconstructing a past taxonomy state by resolving each sequence to its current-day identifier ignores this, and can make an already-existing taxon look newly created. Among 56 viral sequences...

False Novelty from Taxid Retagging in Historical NCBI Taxonomy Reconstruction

Resolving a sequence's identifier via a current-day lookup manufactures false novelty in historical reference-database reconstruction whenever the identifier has been renumbered — a known, tooled mechanism whose rate and consequence had not been quantified. Among 56 sequences fla...