MIMt - (Mass Identification of Metagenomics tests)

16S rRNA database

A curated 16S rRNA database for quick species identification

MIMt is a new 16S rRNA database for archaea and bacteria’s identification, consisting of 48,749 sequences, all of them properly identified at species level. MIMt is updated to include all species  currently sequenced. MIMt contains no redundancy, and despite of its small size is the most complete and accurate database in terms of taxonomic information, enabling higher assignation at lower taxonomic ranks and thus, significantly improving species-level identification.

MIMt is composed of 16S sequences from 24,626 genomes, 916 belonging to archaea and 23,710 from bacteria.  All 16S sequences were obtained from sequenced genomes well identified at the NCBI RefSeq site.

Now MIMt is also available containing only curated sequences at the species level and even strain from Targeted loci. The number of well-identified species from Archaea is 790 and from Bacteria is 22,714 for a total number of sequences of 33,362.  Available at Downloads section!!!!

                                    16S ribosomal RNA

                                    MIMt phylogenetic tree

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MIMt – A curated 16S rRNA reference database with less redundancy and higher accuracy at species-level identification.

Cabezas MP., Fonseca NA., Muñoz-Merida A. Environmental Microbiome 19, 88 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-024-00634-w