ABSTRACT
As widely known, bacteria constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganism. There are many methods for identifying bacteria. Traditionally an observational and biochemical approach has been used. Simply looking at (and even smelling) a bacterial colony growing on an agar plate can give an experienced researcher clues to a bacterium's identity. This is because different bacteria have their unique enzymes which are capable of different biochemical reactions. Thus , classical way of bacteria identification are tedious and time consuming. Identification of bacteria is a systematic process that uses different techniques to narrow down the types of bacteria that are present in bacterial culture. This application consist of 19 types of biochemical tests including bacteria morphology for the identification of bacteria. Databases are created based on Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and related scientific journals. The objectives of this study are to design a manual searching process of bacteria to a computerized system and to develop an innovative and interactive laboratory tools for bacterial identification based on biochemical tests and bacteria morpholog characterization. Lastly, to test the functionality of application among the user. Technologies being used in this project are Android Studio version 2.3.1 , Cloud MyFIK which acts as server and languange that been used which is HTML,PHP and Java. By the end of this study, it is expected that the developed application can assist the student to get the correct result and also check the probabilty or most data accuracy from the result and also can give a lot of benefits to the student in order to save their time without wasting it by search on the book.
BACKGROUND
BactFinder Application is an interactive mobile application designed to facilitate bacteria identification based on biochemical tests and bacteria morphology. As widely known, bacteria constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganism. There are many methods for identifying bacteria. Traditionally an observational and biochemical approach has been used. Simply looking at (and even smelling) a bacterial colony growing on an agar plate can give an experienced researcher clues to a bacterium's identity. This is because different bacteria have their unique enzymes which are capable of different biochemical reactions. Thus , classical way of bacteria identification are tedious and time consuming. Identification of bacteria is a systematic process that uses different techniques to narrow down the types of bacteria that are present in bacterial culture. This application consist of 19 types of biochemical tests including bacteria morphology for the identification of bacteria. Databases are created based on Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and related scientific journals.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
- Students can lead to inaccurate information because of the manual searching. This is because manual searching of bacterial identification rely on phenotypic identification of the causative organism using gram staining, culture and biochemical methods and so on. However, these methods of bacterial identification suffer from two major drawbacks. First, they can be used only for organisms that can be cultivated in vitro. Second, some strains exhibit unique biochemical characteristics that do not fit into patterns that have been used as a characteristic of any known genus and species.
- Student need to use a lot of time in order to search the bacteria. This is because identifying bacteria is a complex process. This is partially because there are so many types of bacteria. Some research found that the estimates of the number of bacteria’s species range from around 10,000 to over a billion. There are too many microorganisms to remember therefore student need to be separated into groups with similar features which will make long time to be consume in order to separate the bacteria’s species.
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CONCLUSION
The expected result of the BactFinder Application after completing the development is user can get the bacteria that they want. At the same time , the user demand’s which is user friendly and innovative technology to facilitate quick prediction analysis in laboratory will accomplished. These result represented to achieve the objective of the project which is to design a manual searching process of bacteria to a computerized system and also to develop an innovative and interactive laboratory tools for bacterial identification based on biochemical tests and bacteria morphology characterization. Furthermore, the result that will be expected after finish project development is the application will assist the user to solve problem by saving the student’s time to search for certain data and also give to students the correct answer.