RIDOM - Ribosomal Differentiation of Medical Microorganisms

Introduction

The Ribosomal Differentiation of Medical Microorganisms (RIDOM) web-server is an evolving electronic resource designed to provide microorganism (bacteria, fungi, mycobacteria) differentiation services for medical identification needs. The diagnostic procedure begins with a specimen partial small subunit (16S or SSU) ribosomal DNA sequence. Resulting from a similarity search, a species or genus name for the specimen in question will be returned. Where the first results are ambiguous or do not define to species level, hints for further molecular (internal transcribed spacer [ITS] database) and conventional differentiation will be offered.

Diagnostics

Identify a microorganism by ribosomal DNA sequence

Identify a microorganism by trace chromatograms

View a demonstration of our system.

Search for a species in the RIDOM database.

Browse microorganisms included in the RIDOM database.

Brief instructions and help pages (download a short tutorial).

Step-by-step introduction to laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases and RIDOM workflow.

General Information

RIDOM News

Description of the RIDOM project.
Contribute a whole new group of species to the RIDOM database content, or you have described a new species

Link from your web site to RIDOM.

About us

Users are asked to cite Harmsen D., Rothgänger J., Frosch M., & Albert J. (2002) RIDOM: Ribosomal Differentiation of Medical Microorganisms Database. Nucleic Acids Res. 30: 416-417 [PubMed] in publications that benefit from RIDOM services.

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Software Requirements: To view the traces in our "Trace Editor" (), your web browser needs Java 2 support.