Federations, Societies and Networks of Microbial Resource Centers
- ABRCN Asian Biological Resource Centers Network
- BCCM Belgian Co-Ordinated Collections of Microorganisms, Belgium
- CCRB French Comité Consultatif des Ressources Biologiques
- CTCCCAS The Committee on Type Culture Collection of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- ECCO European Culture Collections' Organisation
- FCCM Federation of Czechoslovak Collections of Microorganisms
- FELACC Culture Collections Federation for Latin America and The Caribbean
- FEMS Federation of European Microbiological Societies
- FORKOMIKRO Indonesia - Communication Forum for Indonesian Culture Collection Curators
- GBRCN Demonstration Project for a Global Biological Resource Centre Network
- HPACC UK Health Protection Agency Culture Collections
- IUMS International Union of Microbiological Societies
- JSCC Japanese Society for Culture Collections database
- KFCC Korean Federation of Culture Collections
- MICRO-NET Microbial Information Network of China
- MIRCEN UNESCO Microbial Resource Centers (currently no link)
- MIRRI Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure
- PNCC Philippines National Culture Collections
- SBMCC Brazil - Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia Coleções de Culturas
- SCCCMOMB Cuban Culture Collection and other Biological Materials Section
- TNCC Thailand Network on Culture Collection
- UKFCC UK Federation for Culture Collections
- UKNCC UK National Culture Collection
- USFCC United States Federation of Culture Collections, USA
- RCCCM Chilean Network of Microbial Culture Collections
Useful Links
- CABRI Common Access to Biological Resources and Information
- CBD Internet site of the Convention on Biological Diversity
- EFB European Federation of Biotechnology
- EMbaRC European Consortium for Microbial Resource Centres
- GRIN The Germplasm Resources Information Network, USA
- MSDN Microbial Strain Data Network, UK (This site is no longer supported)
- MycoBank The fungal web site
- StrainInfo Navigater for locating strains in distributed culture collections