Information System on Microbial Nomenclature and Taxonomy - Names 1.0.

Lev V. Kalakoutskii, Alexander L. Mazanov, Wladislav I. Golubev, Ljudmila I. Evtushenko, Svetlana M. Oserskaya, Mikhail B. Vainstein: Information System on Microbial Nomenclature and Taxonomy - Names 1.0 CSIT 2000 : 240-244

Abstract

Using the relational database management system Microsoft Access the first version of the information system (IS) for microbial nomenclature and taxonomy Names 1.0 has been developed . The Names IS is intended to handle data on microbial taxa: genera, species, subspecies, strains, etc.

Now the IS contains ca 25000 names of genera, species, and higher levels of prokaryotes, mycelial and yeast fungi, a dictionary of 8500 characteristics, the information on more than 200 culture collecions, ca 3000 bibliographic references, the VKM Catalogue of Microbial Cultures (ca 10000 strains), etc. The total IS is ca 25Mb.

We have included a tree-like presentation of the information in the graphic user interface of the IS. For this purpose, the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications language and ActiveX controls has been used extensively. At present the tree component of the user interface includes:

- an open list of customer's trees for microbial names arrangements: simple names index, various versions of names arrangements, etc.;
- synonym names;
- information on strains from the VKM and cooperating Russian collections;
- special graphic indications for synonyms, type species and strains, etc.;
- full edit possibilities of the trees, including drag & drop movements of their subtrees;
- programmed expansion of the whole tree up to 1, 2, 3, etc. levels;
- search for names in the trees with an expansion and indication of the full pathway for the nodes found;
- automatic information search on microorganisms chosen from other local databases, online collections of microbial cultures, and various sources in the Internet.

The Names IS can be used either in a standalone application mode or as a part of other microbiological databases.

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Printed Edition

Heinz Schweppe and Yuri S. Kabalnov (Eds.): CSIT'2000, Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Computer Science and Information Technologies, September 18-23, 2000, Ufa, Russia. USATU Publishers & JurInfoR-MSU Publishing 2000, ISBN 5-86911-312-1

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