English Generic Editorial Guidelines
Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) publishes English Generic Editorial Guidelines. These guidelines should be consulted, along with the SNOMED International Guidelines prior to creating and submitting any new content for submission to Infoway.
Microbiology References
References are required when submitting requests for new concepts.
Here is the list of a few resources that SNOMED International considers when reviewing the changes applicable to the Organism hierarchy:
Bacteria:
- LPSN (http://www.bacterio.net/) --Site is in alignment and follows the ‘International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes’ (ICSP,http://www.the-icsp.org/) recommendation as published by the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/)
- DSMZ-Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date (https://www.dsmz.de/bacterial-diversity/prokaryotic-nomenclature-up-to-date.html)
Fungus:
Viruses:
- http://www.ictvonline.org/virusTaxonomy.asp--requires review of additional scientific papers for concepts that are more specific than species
Parasites:
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/-- Although not an authoritative source, it will provide useful links to other sources. It is also used in UMLS as a QA source
General
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) -- ITIS is limited in coverage, but it is validated for those organisms it contains.