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A microcomputer program for establishing and maintaining a database for laboratory culture collections
Author(s) -
WOLFF B. R.,
GLICK B. R.,
PASTERNAK J. J.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
letters in applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.698
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1472-765X
pISSN - 0266-8254
DOI - 10.1111/j.1472-765x.1986.tb01544.x
Subject(s) - library science , computer science
A computer program that facilitates the creation of a culture collection database has been written for a microcomputer (Apple He with a Z‐80 card) using dBASE II® (Ashton‐Tate). The Culture Collection Program accommodates up to 250 individual strain records on one 5 1/4″ floppy disk. For each strain, information that can be stored includes the name of the micro‐organism, culture collection number, antibiotic resistance markers, plasmids, genetic markers, references, growth medium, growth temperature and additional comments. The last date of subculturing can be ascertained and information about the status of the preserved cultures can also be noted. With a menu‐driven format which requires no computer programming expertise, the user can readily create new entries, update old ones and search the database for strains with certain common properties.