These kinds of tests are usually advertised as a means to identify a microbe to ones that are already known. I want to ask about using them as an efficient means of doing the necessary phenotypic characterization tests used to describe new species of microbe such as bacteria or yeast. Could an API panel or a Biolog microplate, together with morphology and rRNA genes or other molecular evidence, be enough evidence when describing an sp. nov., or do the phenotypic characterization tests have to be done on petri dishes and broth the old fashioned way?