The Type Strains problem in BIBIle

A Type Strain has a great "confidence weight" in the identification process, Thus Bibi Le return this information in the tabulated results, in the tree, and points out missing Type Strain for a proposed result.
Dealing with type strains recognition is therefore a big part of Bibi Le.

Building the TypeStrainsDataBase

There is currently no real published Type Strains Data Base containing all the data. A Type Strain is deposited in more than one collection of micro-organisms, so its identification number is naturally plurial :

Serratia grimesii has one Type Strain with all these synonym collection numbers : 'NCTC 10422', 'CCUG 15721', 'DSM 30063', 'ATCC 14460', 'IFO 13537', 'JCM 5910', 'HAMBI 1284', 'NRRLB 4271', 'NCTC 11543', 'NBRC 13537', 'LMG 7883', 'CIP 103361'.
But some species have no deposited Type Strain (uncultivated species).

Bibi Le Type Strains Data Base is built regularly (every two months) from 3 iformation sources :

DSMZ Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-Date [1]
List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature [2]
Bibi Le own Type Strains Data Base (this originates from Gregory Devulder work on the previous BIBI program [3] and is regularly actualized)