Report of the Workshop on Integration of Microbial Databases
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Goals
3.0 IMD Prototypes Demonstration
4.0 Recommended Activities
4.1 Organization and Administration
4.2 System Design and Implementation
4.3 Data to be Integrated
It was concluded that the most serious obstacles to microbial database integration were not technical (computer issues) but 1) the lack of a freely available, up-to-date list of procaryotic organism names with synomyms (a nomenclatural database), and 2) that much of the needed data are incomplete, proprietary, or organized in ways unsuitable for integration. Hence, much of the discussion focused upon what types of data and what databases should be included in an IMD.
4.3.1 First Priority Data
a. Nomenclatural Database
b. Phylogenetic Trees
c. Phenotypic Data
4.3.2 Existing Databases
a. Publicly Accessible On-Line Databases
b. Independently Curated, Specific Databases
4.3.3 Databases Needing Development
a. ARDRA
b. Habitat
c. Databases Obtained with Commercial Test Kits or Systems
d. Images
4.3.4 Other Groups Which Have Microbial Strain Data
5.0 Federation Membership and Responsibilities
6.0 Workshop Participants
7.0 Summary
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