Streptococcus pyogenes is a globally important pathogen responsible for at least 500,000 deaths a year, causing significant burden on healthcare systems. It is the causative agent for ailments such as...

Rapid, low-cost genome sequencing has transformed microbiology, advancing efforts to link genetic and phenotypic variation across diverse bacterial systems. Laboratory functional screens now uncover c...

Unified bacterial strain taxonomies are needed for coherent communication of findings in microbiological research. This Essay provides an overview of a novel bacterial strain taxonomy and describes ho...

What's new? Added additional password complexity checks. Added option to automatically register newly validated site-user accounts for all available databases. Fix for determining if FASTA file is...

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Unified strain taxonomies are needed for the epidemiological surveillance of bacterial pathogens and international communication in microbiological research. Core genome multilocus sequence typing (cg...

This release adds two new analysis plugins and other improvements: New GeneScanner plugin New PlasmidFinder plugin Updates to various plugins to support analysis fields (third-party results stored...

This workshop aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of bacterial classification and nomenclature approaches used in genomic surveillance. Participants will gain insight into ...

Oxford Population Health study confirms two genetic lineages of M. catarrhalis and unveils a global tool to track strains and resistance.

The MLST scheme hosted in this database was developed by Nick Vereecke and colleagues at Ghent University and PathoSense, Belgium. It is described in Vereecke et al. 2023 Vet Res 54:33. Database curat...

This version provides the following enhancements: Distance matrix calculation is now significantly quicker in Genome Comparator. Various optimisations were made to avoid redundant hash lookups and...

We are looking for a project manager to develop our activities around the genomic taxonomy of bacterial strains and the corresponding platform at https://bigsdb.pasteur.fr/. The project manager’s main...

Moraxella catarrhalis is an important cause of infectious exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and otitis media. Previously, seroresistant (SR) and serosensitive (SS) lineages that d...

Author summary Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a threat to sexual and reproductive health. With no available vaccine against gonococcal disease, control of infection depends on having effective antimicrobial...

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Why now? Campylobacter infections are on the rise globally, with increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) making treatment more challenging. As the world’s most common bacterial cause of gastroenteritis, Campylobacter poses a growing public health threat, yet effective interventions remain limited. There is an urgent need for research into novel and sustainable strategies to mitigate its impact—spanning genomics, surveillance, food safety, and public health interventions.

Members of the order Halobacteriales are obligate extreme halophiles that belong to the domain Archaea. The classification of the Halobacteriales currently relies on a polyphasic approach, which integ...

Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted to them.

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a leading cause of sexually transmitted infection (STI) and a priority AMR pathogen. Two narrow host range plasmids, p bla and pConj, have contributed to ending penicillin and...

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Hepner et al. develop a 639-loci core genome multi-locus sequence typing (cgMLST) scheme for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato that extends the traditional 8-loci MLST to a genomic scale. The cgMLST scheme gains higher reliability, robustness, and resolution, enabling improved insights into the evolutionary history of the species complex.