January 27, 2006

The Microbial Rosetta Stone Database An interesting visualization of the range of things that can make you sick. From the front page: The Microbial Rosetta Stone (MRS) is a database that relates microorganism names, taxonomic classifications, diseases, and scientific literature for the most important human, animal and plant microbial pathogens, with linkage to public genomic sequence databases.

Clear PDFs of the trees are on this page.

  • That's pretty cool. I had to stop looking, because I started to feel queasy thinking about all them wee beasties. Of course, they're not as creepy as the bladder fish...