Tiny Earth Public Database

table_name	table_slug	table_description	table_count
table_name	table_slug	table_description	table_count
AA Screen Extracts	aa-screen-extracts	Similar to Isolate Antibiotic Activity Screens, Extract Antibiotic Activity Screens are used to identify which of several tests an Extract does or does not show antibiobic activity against.	10
AA Screen Isolates	aa-screen-isolates	Isolate Antibiotic Activity Screens are used to identify which of several tests an Isolate does or does not show antibiobic activity against.	579
AA Screen Libraries	aa-screen-libraries	Library Antibiotic Activity Screens are a useful tool in the Tiny Earth research flow for identifying which of several isolates shows antibiotic activity.	29
Dilutions	dilutions	Serial Dilution Plates are the first stage of the Tiny Earth research flow in which students identify Isolates of their own.	7
Eukaryotics	eukaryotics	Similar to screening against ESKAPE bacteria, some Tiny Earth students also screen their Isolates against known eukaryotic organisms, such as slime mold or oomycete.	62
Extracts	extracts	A pure microbial culture produces a vast number of metabolites, so another step in the study of a potentially new antibiotic is to extract the active compound separate from other chemical "contaminants."	10
Gram Stains	gram-stains	Many Tiny Earth classes perform additional tests on Isolates before or after screening them for antibiotic activity, such as Gram staining.	55
Institutions	institutions	Tiny Earth's global network of Tiny Earth courses includes more than 800 trained instructors in 33 countries who teach a Tiny Earth course to an estimated 16,000+ students per year. The program is headquartered at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.	5
Isolates	isolates	For most Tiny Earth research and courses, the Isolate is the most important entry type. Isolate entries themselves are minimal–just a name, date, and the sample it came from. All other information about an Isolate is tracked in other entries that reference it, such as plates and screens where the Isolate occurred.	144
Library Collections	library-collections	Library Collection plates are an intermediate step of the Tiny Earth research flow: after performing serial dilution to identify isolates, but before screening those isolates for antibiotic activity.	3
Other Tests	other-tests	Many Tiny Earth classes perform additional tests on Isolates before or after screening them for antibiotic activity.	143
rRNA Analyses	rrna-analyses	A highlight of many Tiny Earth courses is performing 16S rRNA Gene Analyses to identify the Genus of one's Isolates.	39
Samples	samples	The very first step of the Tiny Earth research flow is to collect your Environmental Sample.	61
Streaks	streaks	A Streak Plate is used to capture pure colonies of an Isolate that was discovered on a Serial Dilution Plate or Library Plate that contained colonies of possible several other microbes.	55
Legacy Data	legacy	All public data exported from the previous Tiny Earth Database, as of 2025-01-14.	3579