Different commercial databases have been created for the bacterial
identification by MALDI-TOF MS, such as the platform AXIMA@
SARAMIS (Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan), the MicrobeLynx bacterial
identification system (Waters Corporation, Manchester, UK) and
MALDI Biotyper (Bruker Daltonics Inc., Billerica, USA). These private databases
are mainly targeted at human pathogens causing infectious diseases,
although some bacterial species that play an important role in
fish spoilage and safety are also included. Recently, the newpublic database
Spectrabank (http://www.spectrabank.org) has been created by a
research group working at Santiago de Compostela University in Spain.
This library contains the mass spectral fingerprints of the main spoilage
and pathogenic bacteria species from seafood, including 120 species
with interest in the food sector.