title: A handy database for culture collections worldwide: CCINFO-PC.
abstract: Culture collections are reservoirs of cultivable microbes, cell lines and gene libraries. Their role and duty are to supply biological resources to biomedical communities; nevertheless, their visibility from the public is low because most culture collections still have poor accesses via the Internet. Therefore the WFCC World Data Center on Micro-organisms (WDCM) developed a database that runs on IBM PCs and compatibles, which are the most popular computer and will be as powerful as workstations. The database includes various information: activities of 484 culture collections from 58 countries; an integrated list of their holdings of bacteria, fungi and yeast; and data entry system for culture collections.
authors.affiliation: CAS The Institute of Microbiology, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugawara
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria; D018070:Biological Specimen Banks; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003201:Computers; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005658:Fungi; D012984:Software; D013045:Species Specificity; D009626:Terminology as Topic