Compendium of Actinobacteria
Actinoplanes auranticolor
The Compendium of Actinobacteria is an electronic manual including the important bacterial group of the actinomycetes compiled by PD Dr. Joachim Wink at Sanofi-Aventis. Since October 2012 he is employed at the HZI-Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig (joachim.wink@helmholtz-hzi.de).
The species descriptions include the documentation of the colony growth in pictures as well as the microstructure by scanning electron microscopy. About 2150 species belonging to more than 180 genera are described in the current version which will be emended every year.