"Welcome to the Bacillus cereus group Typing Databases"

This website hosts the typing databases developed at the University of Oslo, Norway, for the Bacillus cereus group of bacteria, which includes B. cereus, B. anthracis, B. thuringiensis, B. mycoides, B. pseudomycoides, and B. weihenstephanensis. The databases contain MultiLocus Sequence Typing (MLST), MultiLocus Enzyme Electrophoresis (MLEE), and Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) phylogenetic data.

• NEW: The server provides access to the newly developed comprehensive Multi-Datatype Database, HyperCAT, containing all strain information and phylogenetic typing data for the Bacillus cereus group, integrating MLST, MLEE, and AFLP data. The database provides multidatatype strain comparisons and combined phylogenetic analyses made using supertree techniques.
  Click here to enter HyperCAT, the B. cereus group MLST+MLEE+AFLP Superdatabase.

• The server also provides access to the Multi-Scheme MLST Database, SuperCAT, containing the strain information and sequence data for all the five published MLST schemes for the Bacillus cereus group. The database allows to conduct multi-scheme strain comparisons and combined phylogenetic analyses using supertree techniques. SuperCAT is described in Tourasse and Kolstø 2008.
  Click here to enter SuperCAT, the B. cereus group MLST Superdatabase.

• The server also gives access to the database specifically developed for the optimized Bacillus cereus group MLST scheme of Tourasse, Helgason et al. 2006.
  Click here to enter the B. cereus group optimized scheme MLST database.

• In addition,
  • you can find general information about MLST, AFLP, and MLEE for the B. cereus group
  • read our Policy document
  • visit our Bacillus research group website
  
  
• Related databases:
  • A specific database system for the Priest scheme is available at http://pubmlst.org/bcereus/
  • A specific BLAST database for the Candelon-Sorokin scheme is available at http://spock.jouy.inra.fr/cgi-bin/bacilliMLSopen.cgi

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Citing the database

If you use data from this website in publications, please cite this website, preferably as below:

"This publication made use of the University of Oslo's Bacillus cereus group MultiLocus and MultiData Typing website (http://mlstoslo.uio.no)"

The database is constructed by using mlstdbNet software by Jolley et al, 2004, heavily modified by Nicolas J. Tourasse, and the PostgreSQL database management system. The website makes use of the facilities and support provided by the Norwegian EMBnet node and the HPC Supercomputing facilities at the University of Oslo.

Contact

For comments, questions, or to submit your own data for inclusion into the database release, please contact Nicolas J. Tourasse (nicolat@biotek.uio.no) or Prof. Anne−Brit Kolstø (a.b.kolsto@farmasi.uio.no), Laboratory for Microbial Dynamics (LaMDa), Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, University of Oslo.