Notification of bacterial strains made available by the UK National Collection of Type Cultures in 2023
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Many microbial culture collections, like the UK's National Collection of Type Cultures, add biological material such as bacterial strains to their holdings over time in a process known as accessioning. Here, we report on the 101 bacterial strains made available to scientists in the UK and globally by the National Collection of Type Cultures in 2023. Strains that are received are preserved, identified to species level and confirmed to be viable and pure. Genomic and metadata (where these are available) are made accessible via the UKHSA Culture Collections online catalogue. Commentary on the strains' provenance and significance is presented, and wider trends in accessioning between 2017 and 2023 are examined. On average, ~101 strains were made available to the scientific community each year between 2017 and 2023. Fewer strains of veterinary provenance were made available than any other kind of strain, highlighting a need to accession more of these strains. However, there has been growth in the proportion of strains that are either antimicrobial resistant or type strains of novel microbial taxa, demonstrating that the NCTC program of accessioning helps support its function as a contemporary public health resource and repository for prokaryotic taxonomists.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".