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Microrite's BactiSpell 2006
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In the year 2000, after 25 years of being a microbiologist in
clinical and industry settings, Ziva Abraham President and Founder of Microrite, Inc. realized that she could not spell bacterial names correctly. At first she thought it was just her, but reflecting on the spelling errors in various reports, laboratory data and results she had reviewed, she plunged into the project of
creating a spellchecker that would help her and many others.
It was a long drawn process of collecting names of bacteria
from known resources as well as references and then verifying
them against Bergey's Manual. She was surprised to find that many
names were spelled differently in different references. Of course,
she chose Bergey's as the Gold Standard. This collection of words
was then compiled into a software package. The software was
called Bactispell. Long hours of programming and Beta testing
were spent to ensure that the software matched the Genera with
their correct species names. There were many cases when the
Genera and the species were spelled the same way. The software
was programmed to recognize these special instances. Essentially
the software recognized the Genera and capitalized the first
letter, if it was not capitalized and recognized the species names
and un-capitalized them. The program followed this procedure
as it went through the document, and concurrently it italicized all
the bacterial names.
This software was sold on Microrite's website for Office 95
and then upgraded to work with Office 98. It was when Office
2000 was released that Bactispell was discontinued due error messages while installing, and the trouble shooting efforts that it demanded for different operating
systems. The advanced security systems installed on personal computers increased software support.
The first text version was offered to the microbiology community for
free use in 2002.
Dr. Scott Sutton recently decided with her agreement to add more technical
terms to the word list to benefit the users.
The three word lists Bactispell 1; Bactispell 2 and Bactispell 3 are extensive, and can help you spell check bacterial names and technical terms.
Please take advantage of this tremendously helpful tool and
save time by not checking references for correct spellings.
- Microrite, Inc.
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