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Investment into the future of microbial resources: culture collection funding models and BRC business plans for biological resource centres.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Microbial biobanking: safeguarding the tiny treasures for sustainable human welfare.Folia microbiologica · 2026Review
- Type I Sourdough Preservation Strategies and the Contribution of Microbial Biological Resource Centers to Biodiversity Protection: A Narrative Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Identification of oleaginous yeasts that metabolize aromatic compounds.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2020Article
- Preserving US microbe collections sparks future discoveries.Journal of applied microbiology · 2020Review
- Preservation, Characterization and Exploitation of Microbial Biodiversity: The Perspective of the Italian Network of Culture Collections.Microorganisms · 2019Review
- Public Microbial Resource Centers: Key Hubs for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Microorganisms and Genetic Materials.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Review
- Fungal biological resources to support international development: challenges and opportunities.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2019Review
- MALDI-TOF MS protein fingerprinting of mixed samples.Biology methods & protocols · 2019Article
- Cyanobacterial diversity held in microbial biological resource centers as a biotechnological asset: the case study of the newly established LEGE culture collection.Journal of applied phycology · 2018Article
- An evaluation of the status of living collections for plant, environmental, and microbial research.Journal of biosciences · 2017Review
- A Review of Living Collections with Special Emphasis on Sustainability and Its Impact on Research Across Multiple Disciplines.Biopreservation and biobanking · 2017Review
- Establishment of a Quality Management System Based on ISO 9001 Standard in a Public Service Fungal Culture Collection.Microorganisms · 2016Article
- The Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure MIRRI: Strength through Coordination.Microorganisms · 2015Article
- The United States Culture Collection Network (USCCN): Enhancing Microbial Genomics Research through Living Microbe Culture Collections.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2015Review
- Characterization of secondary metabolites of an endophytic fungus from Curcuma wenyujin.Current microbiology · 2014Article
- Deposit of microbial strains in public service collections as part of the publication process to underpin good practice in science.SpringerPlus · 2014Article
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3 authors.
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Abstract
Through their long history of public service, diverse microbial Biological Resource Centres (mBRCs) have made myriad contributions to society and science. They have enabled the maintenance of specimens isolated before antibiotics, made available strains showing the development and change of pathogenicity toward animals, humans and plants, and have maintained and provided reference strains to ensure quality and reproducibility of science. However, this has not been achieved without considerable financial commitment. Different collections have unique histories and their support is often tied to their origins. However many collections have grown to serve large constituencies and need to develop novel funding mechanisms. Moreover, several international initiatives have described mBRCs as a factor in economic development and have led to the increased professionalism among mBRCs.
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