A total of 218 complete proteome sequences of the 6 Nocardia subspecies (i.e., Nocardia farcinica, Nocardia cyriacigeorgica, Nocardia abscessus, Nocardia otitidiscaviarum, Nocardia brasiliensis, and Nocardia nova) were obtained from the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) database on May 1st, 2022. The Bacterial Pan Genome Analysis (BPGA) tool v1.3, which utilizes USEARCH to cluster proteins with a sequence identity threshold of 0.5, was employed to identify core proteins (27 (link), 28 (link)).
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