Querying Databases by Organism Properties

The latest release (version 19.0) of BioCyc includes PGDBs for 5500 different organisms, and we expect that number to grow with every future release. With such numbers, unless you already have a specific species and strain in mind, it becomes impractical to browse through the complete list of organisms. We already allow users of the BioCyc website to select organisms specifically by name or taxonomic class. We describe here extensions to that selection process that enable users to search for organisms based on a larger set of properties of the organism, such when and where the sample was collected and what kind of environment it lives in.