PhenoLink - a web-tool for linking phenotype to ~omics data for bacteria: application to gene-trait matching for Lactobacillus plantarum strains

Table 1 Phenotypic measurements of strains

Medium enriched with	Phenotypes^a
D-arabitol	Yes (7), Maybe^b (11), No (21)
D-melezitose	Yes (34), No (5)
D-raffinose	Yes (33), Maybe (1), No(5)
D-sorbitol	Yes (35), No (4)
D-turanose	Yes (32), No (7)
Glycerol	Maybe (4), No (35)
K-gluconate	Yes (26), Maybe (9), No (4)
L-Arabinose	Yes (26), Maybe (3), No (10)
L-Rhamnose	Yes (6), Maybe (8), No (25)
Methyl-.d-glucopyranoside	Yes (8), Maybe (1), No (30)
Methyl-.d-mannopyranoside	Yes (27), Maybe (1), No (12)
Nitrogen-dioxide production	Yes (6), No (36)

a: Numbers in parenthesis show number of strains with given phenotype, for instance there are 32 strains that could grow on sugar D-turanose and 7 strains that could not grow on this sugar. Phenotype and ~omics data are available at the web address of PhenoLink.
b: For some strains phenotypes could not be determined accurately resulting in an ambiguous phenotype "Maybe". Using the web-interface of PhenoLink such phenotypes can be discarded from the association analysis (see Methods and User's Guide available at PhenoLink's web page).

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