Bhattacharjee Kaushik, Joshi Santa Ram
Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
PLoS One. 2014 Apr 8;9(4):e94088. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094088. eCollection 2014.
The majority of the Earth's microbes remain unknown, and that their potential utility cannot be exploited until they are discovered and characterized. They provide wide scope for the development of new strains as well as biotechnological uses. The documentation and bioprospection of microorganisms carry enormous significance considering their relevance to human welfare. This calls for an urgent need to develop a database with emphasis on the microbial diversity of the largest untapped reservoirs in the biosphere. The data annotated in the North-East India Microbial database (NEMiD) were obtained by the isolation and characterization of microbes from different parts of the Eastern Himalayan region. The database was constructed as a relational database management system (RDBMS) for data storage in MySQL in the back-end on a Linux server and implemented in an Apache/PHP environment. This database provides a base for understanding the soil microbial diversity pattern in this megabiodiversity hotspot and indicates the distribution patterns of various organisms along with identification. The NEMiD database is freely available at www.mblabnehu.info/nemid/.
地球上的大多数微生物仍不为人知，而且在它们被发现和鉴定之前，其潜在用途无法得到开发利用。它们为新菌株的开发以及生物技术应用提供了广阔空间。考虑到微生物与人类福祉的相关性，对微生物的记录和生物勘探具有重大意义。这就迫切需要开发一个数据库，重点关注生物圈中最大的未开发资源库的微生物多样性。印度东北部微生物数据库（NEMiD）中的注释数据是通过从东喜马拉雅地区不同部位分离和鉴定微生物获得的。该数据库构建为一个关系数据库管理系统（RDBMS），用于在Linux服务器后端的MySQL中存储数据，并在Apache/PHP环境中实现。这个数据库为了解这个生物多样性热点地区的土壤微生物多样性模式提供了基础，并显示了各种生物的分布模式以及鉴定结果。NEMiD数据库可在www.mblabnehu.info/nemid/上免费获取。
