HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut.

ABSTRACT: Numerous bacteria in the human gut microbiome remain unknown and/or have yet to be cultured. While collections of human gut bacteria have been published, few strains are accessible to the scientific community. We have therefore created a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. The Human intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC) ( https://www.hibc.rwth-aachen.de ) contains 340 strains representing 198 species within 29 families and 7 phyla, of which 29 previously unknown species are taxonomically described and named. These included two butyrate-producing species of Faecalibacterium and new dominant species associated with health and inflammatory bowel disease, Ruminococcoides intestinale and Blautia intestinihominis, respectively. Plasmids were prolific w

SUBMITTER: Hitch TCA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12056005 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature