Microbial strain collections and information

Abstract

This culture collection contains only non-pathogenic microorganisms contains information on strain names and special application of the particular microorganisms. This collection specializes in microorganisms valued for industrial applications, includes many patented microbes, and the company also provides oilfield and environmental services. This database provides a large set of industrial microorganisms. Under specific entries, it contains information on the origins of, and literature on, the strains. The DSMZ is the German collection of microorganisms and cell cultures. It contains approximately 20,000 bacterial and 5,000 fungal strains. Microbial strain information is a tool with the goal of providing a comprehensive microbial knowledge base. This database focus on fungi and bacteria of the class known as actinomycetes. This web article describes the needs and designs of compiling microbial strain information. This clearinghouse site contains links to many microbial strain collections around the world. The RDP provides annotated bacterial, archael, and fungal rRNA sequences for use in taxonomy and in analyzing secondary structure. This site provides information for global culture collections to share and coordinate information. The American Type Culture Collection specializes in microorganisms useful for research, medical and industrial applications. There is a push to provide fuller data on strains to accompany genome sequences to allow users to more fully benefit from the genome data. The NCBI taxonmy browser provides information on all taxonomic units including bacteria and archae. This site specializes in taxonomic information for prokaryotic strains. This database contains a large amount of information on microbial genomes as well as metadata on those strains. This database focuses specifically on bacteria that use the magnetic field of the earth to navigate. This page lists the strains contained with the University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database. There are links to information on the metabolic pathways contained within those strains. Microbes online contains information on microbial genomes, gene expression, and fitness.