Institut Pasteur researchers describe LIN codes in PLOS Biology: a standardized numerical system for identifying bacterial strains from genome data, now used in BIGSdb-Pasteur and Pathogenwatch for outbreak surveillance. @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social ↘️ doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003781
Life Identification Numbers: A strain nomenclature approach to aid epidemiological surveillance of bacterial pathogensUnified bacterial strain taxonomies are needed for coherent communication of findings in microbiological research. This Essay provides an overview of a novel bacterial strain taxonomy and describes ho...doi.org