title: AHMII: Agent to Help Microbial Information Integration.
abstract: Reproducibility is the key to science. Therefore, the fidelity of organisms, particularly type strains, used in molecular biology must be authenticated before embarking on a series of experiments. In the case of microbes the authentic strain can be obtained from a culture collection. However, tracking down a culture collection that possesses the strain can be an arduous task. With this in mind we have developed a one-stop search engine for bacteria, fungi, yeasts and cell lines that indicates which collections carry the strain of interest. The search agent is named Agent to Help Microbial Information Integration (AHMII) and the URL address is http://www.wdcm.org/AHMII/ahmii.html.
authors.affiliation: Center for Information Biology and DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan. hsugawar@genes.nig.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology; D002460:Cell Line; D005658:Fungi / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology; D020407:Internet; D008828:Microbiological Techniques / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D015003:Yeasts / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology