IJSEM Resources for Systematists

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

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 Gothenburg
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

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

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

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

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

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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