BIGSdb v1.15.6 has been released. This contains 2 new plugins - GeneScanner and a wrapper for PlasmidFinder. Also added support for third party analysis fields for various plugins and performance improvements. Release notes at github.com/kjolley/BIGS...

The recordings of the 6-hour webinar on Bacterial Strain Taxonomy for Genomic Surveillance are now available through the @ecdc.europa.eu ECDC Learning portal: learning.ecdc.europa.eu/course/view.... - cgMLST, SNPs, K-mer based strain nomenclatures applications and more!

New cgMLST scheme and LIN code classifications for Moraxella catarrhalis. Available on @pubmlst.org. www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

A new MLST scheme is now available for Actinobacillus spp. at pubmlst.org/organisms/ac.... The scheme was developed by Nick Vereecke and colleagues at Ghent University and PathoSense, Belgium. It is described in pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37020296/.

#Kaptive analysis for surface polysaccharide typing is now available within the @pubmlst.org Acinetobacter database. 👇

BIGSdb v1.51.3 has been released. This provides performance improvements to distance matrix calculation in Genome Comparator, by rewriting the pairwise comparison in C. In addition, iTOL and Microreact trees can now be constructed from allelic profiles, not just sequences. github.com/kjolley/BIGS...

We are currently experiencing an issue with OAuth authentication to the API following a move to a new server.

A new MLST scheme is now available for Streptococcus parasuis, an emerging zoonotic pathogen. This has been developed by Han Zheng and colleagues at the National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. pubmlst.org/organisms/st...

A new database is now available on @PubMLST.org for Halobacteria MLST. This is our first scheme for Archaea. The scheme is based on MLSA loci described in Papke et al. 2011 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21296924/). Database is curated by Kayo Cesar Bianco Fernandes (FIOCRUZ). pubmlst.org/organisms/ha...

Please note that we will be performing a software update on the main PubMLST website on Thursday 23/1/2025 between 7-9am UK time. There will be short periods of disruption when the website will be unavailable during this window.

HTTP requests have been disabled on the API. All requests to rest.pubmlst.org are now forwarded automatically to rest.pubmlst.org. In the future, unencrypted traffic (HTTP) will be blocked at the University firewall and these requests will fail, so please update any scripts to use HTTPS only.

BIGSdb v1.50.1 has been released. This adds support for Neighbour-Joining trees in GrapeTree. Full release notes at github.com/kjolley/BIGS...

We find more examples of these high resistance in global datasets - particularly in LMICs, and predominantly in lineages associated with chicken production (credit to @pubmlst.org)

🚨 A twixmas surprise, our final paper of 2024: Sharing of cmeRABC alleles between C. coli and C. jejuni associated with extensive drug resistance in #Campylobacter 🧵 Link: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #Microbiology #MicroSky #AMR

Just published - A new cgMLST scheme for Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. www.cell.com/cell-reports.... Scheme is available on @pubmlst.org.

BIGSdb v1.50.0 is now live on PubMLST. This allows the results of hicap (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30944197/) to be searchable within the H. influenzae database. 👇

BIGSdb v1.49.1 has been released. This version improves the layout of user registration and admin pages, and provides the option to export LIN code prefixes of specified length in the Export plugin. BIGSdb powers the databases on pubmlst.org and bigsdb.pasteur.fr. github.com/kjolley/BIGS...

PubMLST is now on Bluesky! This account will post service updates, general news about the site, and information related to organisms with databases that we host.