Bacterial Type strain and Proxytype strain in NCBI

Question

[VineethVenumadhavan]

What is the best way to Identify type strains and proxytype strains among all bacterial refseq assemblies in NCBI?

Whether assembly_summary_refseq.txt in NCBI ftp [ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/refseq/assembly_summary_refseq.txt] can help in this regard?

[VineethVenumadhavan]

Thank you microfuge :)

[GenoMax]

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[VineethVenumadhavan]

Yes genomax. Thank you for your comment.

Answer 1

[microfuge]

Seems so from the file link in your post. The last column (relation_to_type_material) has following possible entries-

relation_to_type_material

• assembly from proxytype material
• assembly from synonym type material
• assembly from type material

[VineethVenumadhavan]

Thank you microfuge :)