http://kiev.physchem.kth.se/MycDB.html (World Wide Web Directory, ~04/1995)

MycDB, the Mycobacterium database - release 3-6

MycDB, the Mycobacterium DataBase, uses the excellent database manager ACEDB, written by Richard Durbin (Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK) and Jean Thierry-Mieg (CNRS, Montpellier, France). MycDB is funded by the WHO and the Fondation Raoul Follereau and is maintained by the Unite de Genetique Moleculaire Bacterienne at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Department of Biochemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The latest public release, 3-6, is described here.

A plea!

If you find this service useful and/or if you use it in your work: please send us (staffan) a (real paper) letter telling us about it. We need this to convince funding agencies to continue funding the database!

The database is described in a paper:

  Staffan Bergh and Stewart T. Cole
  MycDB: an integrated mycobacterial database
  Mol. Microbiol. 5 (1994) 517-534

that we ask you to cite if you publish anything that draws on the database.

Getting your own

The database manager software and the database itself are both free, and you can install a copy of your own on your home computer. In the Announcement of the latest release there are links to installation instructions and to the files you need to get.

Queries

NOTE that this is an experimental server! We try to keep it functional, but do not guarantee that it will always work.
If you have problems, or suggestions, or find errors or want to share your data, do not hesitate to contact staffan

To consult MycDB, you can:

query directly, if you know the syntax of tace commands. Just select this and enter your query in the "Enter search keywords" window at the top. (The syntax of tace commands are described in the Help File.)
look at the 'Main window' of the database
or
use the Query Builder/Query by examples functions (these are still experimental) to construct your query. You must have a Web client which recognizes the <FORM> tag to use it (i.e. Mosaic for X, MacMosaic, MacWeb or Lynx).

Some other Internet-accessible mycobacterial/tuberculosis/leprosy resources are:

Last update 1995-03-02

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