Northeast Microbial Database: A Web-Based Databank of Culturable Soil Microbes from North East India

Northeast Microbial Database (NEMiD) is a first of its kind digital database on microbial diversity from North East (NE) India, which provides information on culturable microbes (bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes) isolated from soils of the region (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim and parts of North Bengal) distributed across landscape elements (LSE) spread in various ecosystems. The database is based on the primary data through survey, isolation and characterization of the microbes during 2008-2012. Details about a particular microorganism in the database cover aspects of phylogenetic information on taxonomic outline and classification, morphological, biochemical and molecular characterization, general and cultural characteristics, geographical/location information, history of cultures and preservation details. Each microbe is identified based on cultural, biochemical and molecular characteristics leading to its taxonomic position up to the species level along with information on sampling sites comprising altitude, soil type, latitude, longitude, soil temperature, ambient temperature, humidity and soil pH. The database is available on-line at http://mblabnehu.info/ nemid/.