This database is composed of phenotypic information on Bacteria and Archaea, as listed in the primary literature and Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology.
Contributors to date: R. Eric Collins

FILES:
volume2-tables.txt: Bergey's Manual Volume 2, The Proteobacteria
volume3-tables.txt: Bergey's Manual Volume 3, The Firmicutes
volume4-tables.txt: Bergey's Manual Volume 4, The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes

NOTES:
Volume 1, the Archaea and Deeply-Branching Bacteria, is not available in digital format
Volume 5, the Actinobacteria, will be released in early 2012

PIPELINE:
 - get text out of PDFs
 -- pdftotext -layout -nopgbrk -enc UTF-8 <file>

 - get tables out of text
 -- grep -h -A 100 -B 1 -e 'TABLE' <file>

 - decode messed up Unicode in Volume 2
 -- unicode2not.pl <file>

 - fix whitespace
 -- tabit.pl <file>

 - fix formatting
 -- manually in Kate using Block Selection mode
 -- examples include cleaning up 1-column tables, multi-page tables
 -- multi-line captions were replaced using regex:
 --- Find: (TABLE.*)\n([a-z]{2,}.*)\s*
 --- Replace: \1 \2