Species names of the conserved cultures are updated accordingly to (i) the ca. 1,500 specie described in the 5^th edition of the monograph: “The Yeasts. A Taxonomy Study”, Kurtzman C.P., Fell J.W. & Boekhout T. (eds.) Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2011, (ii) The Yeasts Trust that, via its website (https://theyeasts.org/) provides the most up-to-date and complete taxonomic information on all published yeasts, and (iii) the current literature published in more recent months.

However, since the nomenclature of yeasts is constantly evolving, in order to facilitate the use of the database even by those not updated with respect to the latest taxonomic information, the obsolete names of some species have not been completely eliminated but have been reported among the synonyms, to allow a search also based on the old taxonomy.

The most common synonyms and the name of the asexual state (anamorph) are also included in correspondence with the names under which the different yeast strains have been classified.