Table 1. Numbers of Archaea and Bacteria.
| number of nonredundant 16S rRNA genes from Bacteria and Archaea | 479,7261 |
| number of cultured Bacteria and Archaea | Unknown |
| number of cultured Bacteria and Archaea available in culture collections | 106,3722 |
| number of cultured Bacteria and Archaea in culture collections that are type strains | ∼11,0003 , 4 |
| number of cultured Bacteria and Archaea in culture collections that are type strains and have a genome sequencing project | 3,2855 |
| number of cultured Bacteria and Archaea in culture collections that are type strains and have a genome sequencing project at finished or draft stage | 1,9645 |
| number of Bacteria and Archaea strains with genome projects | 24,559 |