Review Article

The World Bacterial Biogeography and Biodiversity through Databases: A Case Study of NCBI Nucleotide Database and GBIF Database

Table 2

Results of general queries using different filters through the NCBI Nucleotide Database webpage.

QueryRecords

Search “all” [Filter] Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/2572,020,824
Search “ddbj” [Filter] Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/2510,323,758
Search “embl” [Filter] Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/25 11,259,765
Search “genbank” [Filter] Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/2544,146,674
Search Bacteria [organism] Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/257,156,037
Search Archaea [organism] Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/25306,675
Search Eukaryota [organism] Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/2546,489,750
Search “country” Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/2511,994,306
Search ((country AND Bacteria [organism])) Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/252,276,928
Search (((country AND Archaea [organism]))) Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/25130,882
Search (((country AND Eukaryota [organism]))) Limits: Published between: 1986/1/1 and 2012/11/258,346,238

The Nucleotide Advanced Search Builder was used to construct the queries.