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Summary

Microorganism taxonomic names may change from time to time. One of the primary reasons for these changes is advances in science e.g. application of molecular techniques to compare the nucleic acid similarities among organisms, which may result in:

- An organism previously assigned to a particular taxon (e.g. Genus) is found to be significantly unrelated to other members of the taxon on a molecular basis
- Reassessing the taxonomic groupings originally established based on phenotypic characteristics
- Proposal to reassign the organism to a different taxon--either a new taxon or an existing one
- Requirement for a name change

Actions

Date	Requested Action	Requester(s)	Action required by:	Comments
12 July 16	Feedback on proposed changes by CMAG members	Suzanne Santamaria, Farzaneh Ashrafi	Camilla Wiberg Danielsen Microorganism names changes feedback02 Sep 2016 Daniel Karlsson Microorganism names changes feedback 02 Sep 2016 Elaine Wooler Microorganism names changes feedback 02 Sep 2016 Elze de Groot Microorganism names changes feedback 02 Sep 2016 John Fountain Microorganism names changes feedback 02 Sep 2016 Linda Parisien Microorganism names changes feedback 02 Sep 2016 Matt Cordell Microorganism names changes feedback 02 Sep 2016 Olivier Bodenreider Microorganism names changes feedback 02 Sep 2016	Please post you final responses in the Country response table below. Discussion comments can be made as comments.

Relevant documents

Links

2016-04-18 - CMAG Meeting (Face to face)

2016-07-12 - CMAG Meeting

Country response

Table to be completed by each CMAG member for their country. Please note as per the TOR responsibilities consideration needs to be given to Member countries who are not represented on this group to ensure that their priorities are reflected in the group discussions.

Country	Date	Response
Canada	2016-07-14	I agree with option#3 as long as the current FSN description is inactivated and a new description is created to represent the new name. >>> IHTSDO content team response: Yes, that is the recommended plan.
US	2016-08-24	option #3
Netherlands	2016-09-02	option 3, as long as the current FSN description is inactivated and the current preferred synonym is marked as acceptable (the prefered synonym will be the new name) >>> IHTSDO content team response: Yes, that is the recommended plan. The Old description will be an acceptable synonym.
UK	2016-09-12	Option 3, feedback is that the type of change needs to be very clear e.g. The original FSN term and its description ID will be made inactive (OLD description FSN) And a new FSN and description ID will be created and made Active (New description FSN) And a new Synonym and description ID will be created and made Active (Old description) All attached to a Concept ID that will remain Active >>> IHTSDO content team response: Thanks for explaining it in details. the answer is yes, that is the recommended plan.
Sweden	2016-08-25	Option #3, and description of the principles behind this option so that they may be consistently applied in similar situations. >>> IHTSDO content team response: Thanks for the feedback. The IHTSD ediitorial guidelines will be updated accordingly to reflect this decision.
DK	2016-08-25	Option #3


Member countries without a CMAG rep

CMAG response

The CMAG response(s) which are to be fed back to the relevant group or person e.g. Editorial Advisory Group.

Date	CMAG Response	Next steps
20 Sep 2016	Option 3 response preferred.	Suzanne Santamaria and Farzaneh Ashrafi will be progressing the changes in line with the feedback.

Final outcome:

The action taken by the IHTSDO, Advisory Group or other as relevant. This may be a written summary or link to the relevant Confluence page.