IDENTIFYING CORRECT BACTERIOLOGICAL VOCABULARY - SOFTWARE TO LOOK-UP RKC CODES AND STATEMENTS

A program has been written to help identify the correct RKC codes (Rog osa, Krichevsky and Colwell, 1986) for describing microbiological attr ibutes. Terms, which may be complete words, pal ts of words, or number s, can be typed into the computer. A search is made of the set of abou t 13 800 RKC codes and statements that describe them. Statements that contain the search tel ms are displayed in a scrolling window so that the required statement(s) can be identified. A list of selected RKC st atements can be built up in a second window for subsequent use by othe r software packages. The program called RKCLIST runs under the MS-DOS operating system. The software routines used to create RKCLIST have be en written so that they can be incorporated into other software packag es that make use of the RKC coding scheme.