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Related Resources for Systematists

Last updated 30 March 2005

Systematics
Culture Collections
Online Journals
Databases and other online resources
Genomics
International Societies
Patent Organizations
Meetings

Systematics

List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature – Jean Euzéby's invaluable systematics resource

Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-Date

ICSP International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes

Species 2000

Help! Latin! – Avoid common mistakes when naming newly discovered prokaryotes

Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid

Chemical Terminology and Microbiological Nomenclature – by R. E. Buchanan

Salmonella Nomenclature – Jean Euzéby's most excellent guide to this nomenclature problem

Phylogeny Programs – Locate phylogeny packages and free servers

IAPT – International Association for Plant Taxonomy, publisher of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

Botanical Code – International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (St Louis Code)

ICZN – International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, publisher of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

Tree of Life – Internet project on diversity of all organisms on Earth, their history and characteristics

Bergey's Manual Trust

Bacterial Pathogen Pronunciation Station

chlamydiae.com Comprehensive reference and education site to Chlamydia and the chlamydiae

Culture Collections

ARS – Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection of the USDA

ATCC – American Type Culture Collection

BCCM – Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-Organisms

CABRI – Common Access to Biological Resources and Information

CBS – Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures

CCAP – The Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa

CCUG – Culture Collection, University of Göaut;teborg

CECT – Spanish Type Culture Collection

CIP – Institut Pasteur Collection

CLIB – Collection de Levures d'Intérêt Biotechnologique (Collection of Yeasts of Biotechnological Interest)

DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen

JCM – Japan Collection of Microorganisms

NBRC – Biological Resource Center now holds all cultures from the Institute for Fermentation, Osaka (IFO)

NCIMB – National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria

NCTC – National Collection of Type Cultures and Pathogenic Fungi

NCYC – National Collection of Yeast Cultures

SAG – Sammlung von Algenkulturen, Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Göttingen

UKNCC – United Kingdom National Culture Collection

WDCM – WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms, a comprehensive directory of culture collections, databases on microbes and cell lines

Online Journals

AEM – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek – International journal of general and molecular microbiology

Archives of Microbiology

Evolution – International Journal of Organic Evolution

Extremophiles – Life under extreme conditions

Journal of Bacteriology

JCM – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

JGV – Journal of General Virology publishes papers on viral taxonomy

JMM – Journal of Medical Microbiology publishes papers on all aspects of medical and veterinary microbiology, including typing and identification

Microbiology – Covers all aspects of microbiology, including systematics and genomics

Microbiology – English translation of the Russian journal Mikrobiologiya

MBE – Molecular Biology and Evolution

Palaeontologia Electronica – Free electronic-only palaeontology journal

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Databases and other online resources

NCBI Taxonomy – Useful resource, including list of extinct organisms

EBI – Search the European Bioinformatics Institute databases, including EMBL and SwissProt

Entrez – Search Medline, PubMed, GenBank and other databases

PubCrawler – Update alerting service for PubMed and GenBank

RDP – Ribosomal Database Project

AGRICOLA – AGRICultural OnLine Access, bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature

DDBJ – DNA Data Bank of Japan

PIR – Protein Information Resource

probeBase – Online resource for rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes

TDWG – International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases

ArchaeaWeb – Archaea and extremophile information resource

Genomics

Nature genome gateway – Free archive of Nature articles on genomics, including several bacteria, Drosophila, Arabidopsis, mouse, rat and humans

HGP – Human Genome Project

International Societies

SGM – Society for General Microbiology - publisher of IJSEM, Microbiology, JGV and JMM

ASM – American Society for Microbiology

BMS – British Mycological Society

IOM – International Organization for Mycoplasmology

ISEP – International Society for Evolutionary Protistology

IUMS – International Union of Microbiological Societies

Society of Protozoologists

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Patent Organizations

EPO – European Patent Office

IP Australia – Intellectual Property Australia

JPO – Japan Patent Office

NIC – National Information Centre, Government of India Patent Office

USPTO – US Patent and Trademark Office

WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization

Meetings

SGM 156th Meeting – Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 4-7 April 2005

SGM 157th Meeting – Keele University, Keele, 12-15 September 2005

Please e-mail comments, suggestions or corrections to Robin Dunford at r.dunford @ sgm.ac.uk (please copy and remove spaces)

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