“Over time, UNITE, together with its data management platform, PlutoF, has evolved along with DNA sequencing technologies into a fully-fledged online workbench and sequence management environment for handling not only sequence identification but most steps in DNA barcoding and metabarcoding studies.” 

“UNITE serves as a data provider for a range of metabarcoding software pipelines and regularly exchanges data with all major fungal sequence databases and other community resources. Recent improvements include redesigned handling of unclassifiable species hypotheses, integration with the taxonomic backbone of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and support for an unlimited number of parallel taxonomic classification systems.”

“The TH paradigm seeks to achieve unambiguous, unique, and traceable communication of taxa and their properties at any level of the tree of life. It offers a rapid way to discover and communicate undescribed species in identification pipelines and data portals before they are lost to the sixth mass extinction.”