Table 2 Current most comprehensive microbial phenotypic databases
From: Potential of blockchain approach on development and security of microbial databases
| Global Catalogue of Microorganisms (GCM): an information-sharing system between culture collections providing the data sharing possibility between the collections and presents a uniform interface for the users | |
| World Data Center for microorganisms (WDCM): a data center for networking the microbial resource center and an information database for the strain customers | |
| Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase (BacDive): contains data on the morphology, physiology, taxonomy, cultivation, isolation, and genomic data of 63,669 bacterial, including 12,715 type strains | |
| Culture Collection Information Worldwide (CCINFO): a database consists of a list of strains from 791 registered culture collections of 78 countries |