Protax‐fungi: a web‐based tool for probabilistic taxonomic placement of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences

Summary Incompleteness of reference sequence databases and unresolved taxonomic relationships complicates taxonomic placement of fungal sequences. We developed Protax ‐fungi, a general tool for taxonomic placement of fungal internal transcribed spacer ( ITS ) sequences, and implemented it into the PlutoF platform of the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi. With empirical data on root‐ and wood‐associated fungi, Protax ‐fungi...