Use <i>ATCCfinder</i> to identify commercially available American Type Culture Collection strains based on sequence queries.

ABSTRACT: Microbiology research was conducted for decades before widespread availability of sequencing resources and large culture collection sequence repositories, making it challenging to efficiently identify and validate strains used in historical studies. Similarly, finding commercially available microbe strains similar to strains of interest, or containing target genes of interest found during metagenomic experiments is challenging. Despite tremendous advances in sequencing data availability, database curation, and sequence-searching software capabilities, identifying commercially available microbe strains from sequence data remains complicated and tedious. The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) is an organization selling a wide variety of microbes, uniquely providing strain-level taxonomy

SUBMITTER: Koehler SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12357551 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature