Our Proprietary Libraries

As the world’s leading provider for microbial identifications, Accugenix is committed to providing the most accurate identifications to the industries we serve. This commitment requires that we continuously update our validated libraries to stay current with an evolving microbial world, where taxonomic changes and new species are described daily. The direct benefit is that Accugenix is able to identify more samples to the species level for our customers. Outsourcing your samples to Accugenix allows you to gain access to the most relevant, up-to-date and validated Bacterial and Fungal Libraries in the industry.

We routinely evaluate our sample identification rate, for bacterial and fungal customer samples. Since our objective is to achieve the highest percentage of Species level identifications, we compare sample sequence data that do not result in a Species level match against a variety of publicly available sequence databases. If a newly described organism is a good match for those sample sequences, and is validly named and published, the sequence proceeds to our validated library entry process. Building up-to-date libraries is not a trivial task; each entry goes through an extensive testing, review and approval process that is governed by our Standard Operating Procedures.

As an independent contract laboratory service provider offering multiple technology solutions, we routinely compare competitor databases against our gold standard reference libraries. The Library Comparison document discusses the results of our comparison against six commercially available identification systems and in this study you’ll see confirmation that the current Accugenix bacterial database surpasses all other systems.

Library Release Dates

Frequency of Library Updates