Adding to the EVE Catalog

If you think you have found an EVE that has not been reported, or has been reported with a non-standard name, you may add it to the catalog.

You will need to know:

1. to know the taxonomic group to which the EVE belongs, at least to family level, and ideally to as fine a level as possible - e.g. virus genus
2. most eves the most likely family or origin will be known (as EVEs are usually identified based on their similarity to known viruses.
3. for unclassifiable EVEs identified via other means (e.g. Tomonaga paper)
   • classification based on genome type (if known) e.g. RNA negative

4 the EVE type - for most EVEs, this will be defined based on the taxonomy. However for EVEs derived from -ve sense RNA viruses that convention is based on the taxonomy AND the gene

5. if you are aware of the EVE being present as an ortholog in one or more genomes
   • which species genomes?
   • evidence quality?

If you have this information you have most of what you need to name the EVE:

First check the file 'namespace.tsv'

This file is compiled from data on this directory and provides all the unique EVE locus names