Bio-Scry stands on decades of open research and openly-licensed public data. This page credits the reference databases and foundations it relies on; the App's Licenses screen carries the full third-party software attributions.
Bundled databases are public-domain or openly licensed and remain the work of their authors. Every typing and comparison result records the database name and version that produced it.
Resistance-gene and point-mutation references from NCBI AMRFinderPlus (National Center for Biotechnology Information). Feldgarden et al., Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2019.
Seven-locus allele and profile definitions from PubMLST and Institut Pasteur MLST schemes. Jolley, Bray & Maiden, Wellcome Open Research, 2018. This publication made use of the PubMLST website (pubmlst.org).
Replicon references from PlasmidFinder (Center for Genomic Epidemiology, DTU). Carattoli et al., Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2014.
Protein-domain signatures from the Pfam database (EMBL-EBI). Mistry et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2021.
The universal single-copy bacterial marker set used by the assembly QC census follows the AMPHORA2 / PhyloSift markers. Wu & Scott, PLOS ONE, 2012; Darling et al., PeerJ, 2014.
Species identification uses public 16S rRNA reference sequences together with whole-genome average nucleotide identity against openly-available reference genomes. Virulence-factor and restriction-enzyme references are curated from public databases and primary literature. Full per-record provenance is recorded in each result's database stamp.
Bio-Scry describes its techniques generically (for example, de Bruijn graph assembly, average nucleotide identity, the Nei–Gojobori estimator) and cites the underlying methods by author and year. Publication-grade reports generated in the App carry their full method and database citations with them.
The App is built on an embedded Python scientific stack and a number of open-source libraries. The complete list of third-party software components, with their copyright notices and licences, is available in the App's Licenses screen (Settings → Licenses).
Bio-Scry is provided for research and educational use only, and is not a certified diagnostic device. If you believe an attribution is missing or incorrect, please let us know.