Microbiology Related Resources

Databases and other online resources

ArchaeaWeb Archaea and extremophile information resource
CGSG The E. coli Genetic Stock Center
DDBJ DNA Data Bank of Japan
EBI Search the European Bioinformatics Institute databases, including EMBL and SwissProt
EMBL The EMBL sequence database
Entrez Search Medline, PubMed, GenBank and other databases
GenBank
IS finder A database of insertion sequences
IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature Links to recommendations for biochemical and enzyme nomenclature
JWS Online Online cellular systems modelling
PCR Links Links to sites about PCR technique
PubCrawler Update alerting service for PubMed and GenBank
PIR Protein Information Resource
RDP Ribosomal Database Project
Sanger Institute UK-based genome research institute
SubtiList The reference relational database for the Bacillus subtilis genome programme
SwissProt Annotated protein sequence database
TIGR The Institute for Genomic Research

Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-Date A service provided by the DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
Bergey's Manual Trust
IJSEM International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, the official journal of record for new bacterial taxa
List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature An invaluable systematics resource compiled by Jean Euzéby
Phylogeny Programs Locate phylogeny packages and free servers
Salmonella Nomenclature An excellent guide by Jean Euzéby to this nomenclature problem

ARS Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection of the USDA
ATCC American Type Culture Collection
BCCM Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-Organisms
CBS Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures
CCAP The Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
CCUG Culture Collection, University of Göteborg
CECT Spanish Type Culture Collection
CIP Institut Pasteur Collection
CLIB Collection de Levures d'Intérêt Biotechnologique (Collection of Yeasts of Biotechnological Interest)
DSMZ Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen
JCM Japan Collection of Microorganisms
NBRC Biological Resource Center now holds all cultures from the Institute for Fermentation, Osaka (IFO)
NCIMB National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria
NCTC National Collection of Type Cultures and Pathogenic Fungi
NCYC National Collection of Yeast Cultures
UKNCC UK National Culture Collection
CABI Bioscience Reference Collections
SAG Sammlung von Algenkulturen, Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Göttingen
WDCM WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms, a comprehensive directory of culture collections, databases on microbes and cell lines

ASM American Society for Microbiology
BMS British Mycological Society
FEMS Federation of European Microbiological Societies
IOM International Organization for Mycoplasmology
IUMS International Union of Microbiological Societies
SGM Society for General Microbiology - publisher of IJSEM, Microbiology, JGV and JMM; site has links to many other relevant web pages
Society of Protozoologists

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