Hi johnlees,

Please specify:

• Is this a request for us to make a new database?
  No

• Is this a database you have fitted, and wish us to add?
  Yes

If the latter:

• What is the species?
  Neisseria meningitidis

• How many genomes are included?
  26801

• Are the genomes public?
  Yes, All genomes were downloaded from PubMLST website.

• Are the genomes published?
  Yes

• How did you obtain your fit?
  the database was fitted to the dbscan model

I know that there is a database of Neisseria meningitidis already in your website, however, I found that the genome quality of Neisseria meningitidis in PubMLST is not good enough, and some isolates were even not belong to the species of Neisseria meningitidis.

For that reason, in this version of database, all the genomes of isolates were validated by species identification function (taxonomy_wf) in Genome Database Taxonomy toolkit (GTDB-Tk). Quality of the genomes were assessed using CheckM software. Of the isolates, only those with a completeness rate of ≥90% and a contamination rate of ≤5% were considered suitable for Poppunk model fitting and clustering.

Could I submit this database to your website?

Zhizhou Tan

Chinese CDC