International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) phenotypic database

The International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) is the official publication of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes and the Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies, and the official journal of record for novel bacterial and archaeal taxa (http://ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem). We manually searched IJSEM articles to extract phenotypic, metabolic and environmental tolerance data of bacterial strains from 2004 to 2014.<br><br> We focused on the most recent entries as they presumably used standardized and state-of-the-art methods, up-to-date taxonomic nomenclature, most strains had easily retrievable 16S rRNA gene sequence data, and many strains also had publicly available genome sequence data available. Data was manually collected using Google Forms as variable structure of the articles and inconsistent reporting of relevant information precluded the use of automatic text parsing algorithms. <br>

《国际系统与进化微生物学杂志》（International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, IJSEM）是原核生物系统学国际委员会（International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes）与国际微生物学会联合会（International Union of Microbiological Societies）细菌学与应用微生物学分部的官方出版物，同时也是新发现细菌和古菌分类单元的官方备案期刊（http://ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem）。本研究手动检索了2004年至2014年间发表于IJSEM的论文，从中提取细菌菌株的表型、代谢及环境耐受性数据。<br>我们优先选取近期发表的条目，原因在于其大概率采用了标准化且当前最先进的实验方法、最新的分类学命名规范，且多数菌株可便捷获取16S rRNA基因序列数据，诸多菌株还公开了基因组序列数据。由于不同论文的结构存在差异、相关信息的报告格式不一致，无法使用自动文本解析算法，因此本研究通过谷歌表单（Google Forms）手动收集数据。