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fungus or bacteria Database - wich one do you use? (Mar/20/2009 )

Hallo all,

just out of curiosity: wich databases do you use to look up some basic information on a certain fungus or bacteria?

Ex. you want to know whether X is gram positive or negative..

-pito-

If you know the name, just google it!!!

-molgen-

You don't have access to Bergey's?

-GeorgeWolff-

GeorgeWolff on Mar 22 2009, 12:57 PM said:

You don't have access to Bergey's?



no not at the moment.
There is however a free online version, but I cant seem to get on it:
http://www.bergeysoutline.com/ and or http://141.150.157.80/bergeysoutline/ do not seem to work.

I'll google it, maybe I find some version somewhere.

I was just curious that maybe anyone here used other ones.
I justed an old russian one before, however that website is closed :D
I preffered the russian one because it was very easy to use and gave a lot of info right next to the bacteria itself.



@molgen ,

offcourse you can google it, but google isnt the answer to everything...

-pito-

Want to let us take a shot at it? What's the bug?


@molgen ,

offcourse you can google it, but google isnt the answer to everything...

-GeorgeWolff-

For fungi:

http://www.mycobank.org/ has usually some additional info to the fungi, quite up to date

http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp for taxonomy and nomenclature

-gebirgsziege-

pito on Mar 22 2009, 03:02 PM said:

@molgen ,

offcourse you can google it, but google isnt the answer to everything...


Of course it's not.
But it's a start :lol:

-molgen-

http://www.mycobank.org/ has usually some additional info to the fungi, quite up to date

http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp for taxonomy and nomenclature


Those are handy, I didnt know the second one!

I havent really found a good book on it like the Bergey's one.



@GeorgeWolff, its ok now, I got a pdf text file of the book at home, so I can always use that one.
The websites however still dont work, maybe they are just not in use anymore, it might have been a year or more since I checked it online haha

@molgen:

You are right that google or the internet is a start, but the main problem sometimes is that you get a name with a small error in it (lets say an i instead of an e or u or...) and if you then google it....
When you have a guide with all the names in it then it easy to find the one you need in the list (unless the first letter is wrong offcourse haha)

-pito-