- We thank Jan Mareš for his help in curating the Cyanobacteria - Phylum names have been updated following the valid publication of 42 names in IJSEM (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34694987/), including Bacillota and Pseudomonadota - Fixed issue with SSU files where sequences started 2 bp after correct start and stopped 1 bp after correct end of sequence. Thanks to CX for bringing this issue to our attention: https://forum.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/t/16s-23s-and-ssu-all-r207/307/2 - SSU files now provide sequences in their 5' to 3' orientation - Changed QC criterion for number of contigs from 1000 to 2000 in order to better align the GTDB criteria with RefSeq (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/help/anomnotrefseq/) - Changed QC criterion to use ar53 instead of ar122 marker set. The impact of this change was evaluated on the 353,569 genomes (~6,100 archaeal) considered for GTDB R207: -- only 1 additional genome passed QC -- only 21 additional genomes failed QC which included the following species representatives: -- s__Methanoregula sp002497485 -- s__Methanobrevibacter_A sp017634055 -- s__Methanosphaera sp003266165 -- s__MGIIa-L1 sp002688825 -- s__MGIIb-N2 sp002503665 -- s__MGIIa-L2 sp002692685 -- s__MGIIb-O3 sp002730445 -- s__DTDI01 sp011334935 -- s__Methanosphaera sp017652595 -- s__Nitrosopelagicus sp902606945 -- s__Methanolinea sp002501965