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EPPO-Q-BANK

A database to support plant pest diagnostic activities
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 * Arthropods
 * Bacteria
 * Fungi
 * Nematodes
 * Phytoplasmas
 * Plants
 * Viruses and Viroids
 * Blast against all Q-Bank sequences

EPPO Q-BANK

 * Arthropods
 * Bacteria
 * Fungi
 * Nematodes
 * Phytoplasmas
 * Invasive Plants
 * Viruses & Viroids

STATISTICS

 * Species: 2095
 * Specimens: 9748
 * Sequences: 25098


WELCOME TO EPPO-Q-BANK!


A DATABASE TO SUPPORT PLANT PEST DIAGNOSTIC ACTIVITIES




Our objective 

The aim of the EPPO-Q-bank is to support diagnostic activities of phytosanitary
organizations: national plant protection organizations, general inspection
bodies, and private laboratories. The analysis of DNA sequences (e.g. barcodes)
is increasingly used for diagnostics in phytosanitary laboratories. Barcoding
uses short DNA sequences specific to a well-defined taxon for species
identification.  A database with reliable sequences generated from vouchered
biological material is an indispensable tool to detect and identify harmful
quarantine organisms.

EPPO-Q-bank comprises data of properly documented species and strains present in
collections. Depending on the collection, these may be obtained for further
studies or used as controls in identification and detection tests.

The entries in EPPO-Q-bank are updated by a team of curators with taxonomic,
phytosanitary and diagnostic expertise from national plant protection
organizations world-wide and institutes with connections to relevant
phytosanitary collections. The curators are functioning under the supervision of
the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics and Quality Assurance and specialized diagnostic
EPPO Panels.   




Content of EPPO-Q-bank 

EPPO-Q-bank is an open-access database comprising

• Sequence data of properly documented specimens, isolates, strains or
populations of quarantine species or their look-alikes. 

Note: you need to login to see sequences.

• For most of the specimens, isolates, strains or populations, links to
collections from which items may be obtained for further studies, or for use as
controls in identification and detection tests.

• Barcoding protocols published in EPPO Diagnostic Protocols or being
identi-fied as useful protocols by our curators.

• Tools to perform quick analyses of barcoding sequences, including single or
multilocus blast and tree views.

• Links to other relevant databases, e.g. EPPO Global database.

Information is provided per discipline (arthropods, bacteria, fungi, nematodes,
phyto-plasmas, viruses & viroids, and invasive plants).




History of the Database: 



Q-bank a Dutch initiative 

The EPPO-Q-bank Database is a database on quarantine pests. This database
originally started as part of a Dutch project to strengthen the plant health
infrastructure (Q-bank). Q-bank was launched in 2010 and further developed in
the framework of the EU funded project QBOL. The Dutch Ministry of Economic
Affairs financed this project from 2011 to 2018. 

From Q-bank to EPPO-Q-bank

The possible maintenance of Q-bank within EPPO was discussed for several years
and in September 2018, the EPPO Council agreed that the database should be
transferred to EPPO. Data from the original Q-bank database has now been
transferred to the new EPPO Q-bank database, and during the course of 2019 and
2020, further work was conducted to harmonize the content and structure of the
data among disciplines.




We count on you to help us enrich the database

You can contribute by providing sequences, feedbacks on the use of the database
or by becoming a curator.  More information here.




 * Contact EPPO-Q-Bank

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 * EPPO Global Database

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