Understanding the evolutionary background of a bacterial isolate has applications for a wide
range of research. However generating an accurate species phylogeny remains …

The study of microbial communities is hampered by the large fraction of still unknown
bacteria. However, many of these species have been isolated, yet lack a validly published …

To obtain a higher resolution of the phylogenetic relationships of species within a genus or
genera within a family, multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) is currently a widely used …

The unambiguous characterization of strains of a pathogen is crucial for addressing
questions relating to its epidemiology, population and evolutionary biology. Multilocus …

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was proposed in 1998 as a portable sequence-based
method for identifying clonal relationships among bacteria. Today, in the whole-genome era …

The signing authors together with the journal Systematic and Applied Microbiology (SAM)
have started an ambitious project that has been conceived to provide a useful tool especially …

Background Molecular studies of microbial diversity have provided many insights into the
bacterial communities inhabiting the human body and the environment. A common first step …

Taxonomic and functional research of microorganisms has increasingly relied upon genome-
based data and methods. As the depository of the Global Catalogue of Microorganisms …

Multigene and genomic data sets have become commonplace in the field of phylogenetics,
but many existing tools are not designed for such data sets, which often makes the analysis …

Accurate strain identification is essential for anyone working with bacteria. For many
species, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is considered the “gold standard” of typing, but …