Comparison of Microbial Diversity Preserved in the Culture Collections with That Covered by Life Science Databases

• Published in: Microbiology (New York) Vol. 92; no. 1; pp. 94 - 95
• Main Authors: Vasilenko, A. N., Stupar, O. S., Kochkina, G. A., Ivanushkina, N. E., Ozerskaya, S. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01-02-2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biomedical and Life Sciences; Culture collections; Life Sciences; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology; Short Communications; Strains (organisms); databases; microbial collections; catalogs; Life Science
• ISSN: 0026-2617; 1608-3237
• DOI: 10.1134/S0026261722602688

This work aimed at comparing the pool of strains listed in the currently available catalogs of microorganisms (525284, as of June 2022) with the corresponding records on these strains in Life Science databases (2629). To minimize the number of iterations required for this extensive comparison, we constructed the indexes of database popularity and found 59% of the total popularity to be attributed to the NCBI, EMBL-EBI, SIB (ExPAZy), and the Kyoto University databases. A script test for comparing the VKM catalog with these databases revealed 622 VKM strains, i.e., less than 10% of strains kept in the VKM. Similarly, less than 10% of the strains listed in the Life Science databases were found in world-wide catalogs of culture collections.