New NCBI Insights blog post - Accessing the Hidden Kingdom: Fungal ITS Reference Sequences"

NCBI staff, in collaboration with outside mycology experts, are curating a set of fungal sequences from internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of nuclear rRNA genes. These ITS sequences are especially useful for identifying and classifying fungal species by morphology, a difficult process when using traditional methods.
Source: NCBI Announcements - Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news