IJSEM Phenotypic Database: Bacterial Strain Traits from 2004 to 2014

The International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) phenotypic database contains manually extracted data on bacterial and archaeal strains. Albert Barberán collected phenotypic, metabolic, and environmental tolerance information from IJSEM articles published between 2004 and 2014. Data was manually entered via Google Forms due to inconsistent reporting formats in the source articles.

Use Cases

• Predicting bacterial taxonomy based on phenotypic and metabolic traits mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing correlations between environmental tolerance and metabolic capabilities of bacterial strains.
• Training models to link phenotypic data with genomic sequence data for bacterial strains.

Strengths

• Data spans a defined 11-year period from 2004 to 2014.
• Focuses on recent entries which likely used standardized methods and up-to-date nomenclature.
• Manual data collection ensured accuracy despite variable article structures.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) articles.

Collection Method

Manual extraction and entry via Google Forms.

Time Range

2004 to 2014