| Culture Collections and Data-centre for Microorganisms |
ATCC: American Type Culture Collection, USA
BCC: BIOTEC Culture Collection, Thailand
BCCM: Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms, Belgium
– DCG, Diatoms Collection
– IHEM, Biomedical Fungi and Yeasts Collection
– ITM, Mycobacteria Collection
– LMBP, Plasmid Collection
– LMG, Bacteria Collection
– MUCL, Environmental and Applied Mycology
– ULC, Cyanobacteria Collection
BCRC: Bioresources Collection and Research Center, Taiwan
CABI: CABI Bioscience, UK
– Microbial and Molecular Services
CABRI: Common Access to Biological Resources and Information
CAIM: Collection of Aquatic Important Microorganisms, Mexico
CBS: CBS-KNAW culture collection, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, the Netherlands
CCAP: Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, UK
CCM: Czech Collection of Microorganisms, the Czech Republic
CCMM: Moroccan Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms, Morocco
CCUG: Culture Collection, University of Göteborg, Sweden
CECT: Spanish Type Culture Collection, University of Valencia, Spain
CELMS: Collection of Environmental and Laboratory Microbial Strains, University of Tartu, Estonia
CFBP: Collection Française des Bactéries Phytopathogènes, France
CGMCC: China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, China
CICC: China Center of Industrial Culture Collection, China
CNCTC: Czech National Collection of Type Cultures, the Czech Republic
CPCC: China Pharmaceutical Culture Collection, China
CRBIP: Biological Resource Center of Institut Pasteur, France
– CIP, Collection of Institut Pasteur (bacteria and viruses)
– PCC, Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria
DSMZ: German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Germany
FGSC: Fungal Genetics Stock Center, USA
HAMBI: Division of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland
HUT: HUT Culture Collection, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Hiroshima University, Japan
ICMP: International Collection of Micro-organisms from Plants, New Zealand
ITEM: Agri-Food Toxigenic Fungi Culture Collection, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Bari, Italy
JSMRS (formerly JSCC): Japan Society for Microbial Resources and Systematics – JSMRS Strain Database
KACC: Korean Agricultural Culture Collection, Republic of Korea
KCTC: Korean Collection for Type Cultures, Republic of Korea
KEMB: Korea Environmental Microorganisms Bank, Republic of Korea
MAFF: Microorganisms Section of the NIAS (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences) Genebank, Japan
MCC: Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Maharashtra, India
MCC-NIES: Microbial Culture Collection at National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
MCCC: Marine Culture Collection of China, China
MTCC: Microbial Type Culture Collection & Gene Bank, India
NBIMCC: National Bank for Industrial Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Bulgaria
NBRC: NITE Biological Resource Center, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan
NCAIM: National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms, Hungary
NCCB: The Netherlands Culture Collection of Bacteria, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, The Netherlands
NCIMB: National Collections of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria, UK
NCPPB: National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, UK
NCYC: National Collection of Yeast Cultures, UK
NRRL: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Culture Collection, US Department of Agriculture, USA
PAMC: Polar and Alpine Microbial Collection, Republic of Korea
PCM: Polish Collection of Microorganisms, Poland
PHE Culture Collections: Public Health England Culture Collections, UK
– ECACC, European Collection of Cell Cultures
– NCTC, National Collection of Type Cultures
– NCPV, National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses
– NCPF, National Collection of Pathogenic Fungi
TBRC: Thailand Bioresource Research Center, Thailand
TISTR: Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Thailand
TNCC: Thailand Network on Culture Collections, Thailand
UAMH: University of Alberta Microfungus Collection and Herbarium, Canada
UCD: Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, University of California, Davis, USA
UKNCC: United Kingdom National Culture Collection, UK
USFCC: US Federation for Culture Collections, USA
VKM: All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms, Russia
VTCC: Vietnam Type Culture Collection, Vietnam
VTT: Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) Culture Collection, Finland
WFCC: World Federation for Culture Collections
| Bacterial Nomenclature |
Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date (by the DSMZ)
List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature
| Genome and Sequences |
Bacillus subtilis Genome Database (BSORF)
Cyanobase (The Genome Database for Cyanobacteria)
Database of Genomes Analysed at NITE (DOGAN)
DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
E. coli Genome Project
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
European Ribosomal RNA Database
Genome Project of Streptomyces avermitilis
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) – GenBank
Nocardia farcinica Genome Project
Ribosomal Database Project (RDP)
Sanger Centre – Bacterial Genomes
SubtiList (Bacillus subtilis Genome)
| Publishers and Libraries |
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Bergey’s Manual Trust
Digital Atlas of Actinomycetes [by The Society for Actinomycetes Japan (SAJ)]
PubMed
Microbiology Society – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM), Microbiology
| Others |
International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP)
International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS)
RIKEN
RIKEN BioResource Research Center (RIKEN BRC)
