In addition to the Sherlock System Software, operation of the Sherlock Microbial Identification System requires purchasing one or more fatty acid or DNA-Sequence-based databases (libraries) based on your requirements.  The Base Sherlock Software comes with the Aerobic Bacteria Library.  Sherlock DNA Sequence libraries require the Sherlock DNA software.

FATTY ACID LIBRARIES for Sherlock 6.1 Version Software

Instant FAME 3 Minute Sample Preparation

Instant FAME Libraries- Version 1.x
The Instant FAME Libraries contain 966 Aerobic Bacteria species and 44 Yeast species.

Standard 2 Hour Sample Preparation

Standard/Rapid Aerobic Bacteria Library- V.6.1 
The Aerobe library contains over 695 Environmental 
species and 430 Clinical species.  

Standard/Sensi Anaerobic Bacteria Library- V.6.0 
The Anaerobe library contains 725 species. 

Standard/Sensi Yeast and Other Species- V.6.0 
This library contains 190 Yeast species.

Bioterrorism Library V.3.0 
The Sherlock Bioterrorism library identifies 6 major bacterial bioterrorism species and is both U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FDA 510(k) cleared for confirmation of Bacillus anthracis (anthrax).


DNA SEQUENCING LIBRARIES for Sherlock DNA Software

Sherlock DNA 16S/28S Libraries V.2.10 
The 16S Library contains over 1,500 species of bacteria 
and the 28S Libraries contains over 1,100 species of 
yeast and fungi.



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