Brazilian Microbial Culture Collections. Click on English link. The database is a result of a national survey carried out in Brazil in 1988/89 which is now a national program for culture collections. Can search by keyword or species.
Chinese Culture Collections at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Combination of four different organizations. Linked to many databases which include plant viruses online and medline workbench.
Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa(CCAP), in Cambridge, searchable index of over 2000 strains in the collection and media recipes. Links to services, special testing applications, strain data, publications, various appendices, and order forms.
SAG - Culture Collection of Algae at Goettingen University. Contains information on culture media, image gallery, price and ordering info, as well as a strain catalogue/database.
Freshwater Algae Culture Collection, Department Of Biology, Loras College. Contact: Dr David B. Czarnecki
List of microalgal culture collections worldwide
MSDN, Microbial Strain Data Network provides access to many smaller culture collections. MSDN is a non-profit organization providing specialized information and communications services for life scientists worldwide. It also provides access to a unique collection of databases covering microbiology, biotechnology and biodiversity. Has links to information on microorganisms, fungi, and other related resources.
North East Pacific Culture Collection, mail to: nepcc@unixg.ubc.ca
Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria (PCC) is maintained in the Unit de Physiologie Microbienne. The PCC is one of the specialized Culture Collections of the Institut Pasteur attached to the Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes. Site has links to a "strains" list and properties search (i.e. taxonomy, toxicology, nutrition, nitrogen fixation, and gas vesicles).
CCMP, Provasoli - Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton, in Maine. Living stock culture collection of marine phytoplankton for the USA. The CCMP is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation (USA) and by revenues derived by the sale of cultures. Their basic service is to maintain important and representative living culture. Special services include special orders (e.g., mass culturing, DNA extractions, frozen cells), isolating and purifying strains, visiting scientist space, and education (phytoplankton culture techniques). Other links include database search, culture orders, culturing info, courses offered, and mass cultures and DNA.
U.C. Berkeley's and Jepson Herbaria, University of California at Berkeley, are collections of preserved, documented plant specimens that are irreplaceable physical records of biodiversity, structural and chemical variation, biogeographic distribution, and ecology. The page also contains information on education, research, publications, botanical links, and other on-line resources.
UTCC, University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria. UTCC is Canada's national service collection of freshwater algae and cyanobacteria. The collection provides research quality cultures and related services to educational institutions, government and commercial laboratories. The page is divided up into special services, culture maintenance, culture lists and ordering.
UTEX Culture Collection, a searchable source for the cultures at University of Texas. Their collection includes living algae, representing most major algal taxa. The primary function of UTEX is to provide algal cultures at modest cost to a user community. Other information on the page includes a database, order forms, growth media recipes, and reference literature.
World Data Centre for Microorganisms seachable index based at RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Saitama, Japan provides a comprehensive directory of culture collections, databases on microbes and cell lines, and the gateway to biodiversity, molecular biology and genome projects. Other links include search engine and nomenclature, databases of resource banks, publishers, genome projects, biodiversity and biosafety, distance learning systems, and sequence/phylogenetic analysis.
Dr. Mark A. Schneegurt, mark.schneegurt@wichita.edu
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