Getting oxygen requirements for bacterial species identified by 16S sequencing

Hello!
For my analysis, I'd like to know if identified species are aerobic or anaerobic.
I found that I could retrieve this information from BacDive database. However, I can only search by taxonomic information.
Would search by 16S sequence be more reliable?
Are there other tools to do that?

Cheers,

@crusher083,

Sorry this has taken us so long to get back to you! You could add a taxonomic annotation to your 16S samples and then query using the annotations. Check out the Parkinson's Mouse tutorial for an example of how to do this.

I think the only advantage to searching only by 16S sequence data is that if you had a sample that was unable to be matched to an annotation and there was a classification of aerobic/anaerobic assigned to that sequence in the database, it would allow you to ascribe this characteristic to that sample without knowing the taxonomic information. I find this to be a pretty unlikely scenario, though I would love to hear from some of our more experienced researchers on here.

It is a few extra steps, but I think this process will get you the results you are seeking.