Deposit of microbial strains in public service collections as part of the publication process to underpin good practice in science.
Despite recommendations to release microbial resources to the community post-publication, the reality is far from satisfying. A workshop discussed the need for a coordinated and effective deposition policy for 'key' microbial strains and proposes a set of criteria to facilitate their deposition into public service collections. The majority of authors either contacted directly or during submission of manuscripts to several international, mainly European bacteriology journals agreed to this set of 'key strain' criteria and to the voluntarily deposition of resources into public resource centres.
MIRRI, c/o DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany.
Erko
E
Stackebrandt
CABI, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9TY UK.
David
D
Smith
CIRM-Levures Micalis, Inra/AgroParisTech, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France.
Serge
S
Casaregola
MUT - Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10125 Torino, Italy.
Giovanna Cristina
GC
Varese
CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, Netherlands.
Gerard
G
Verkleij
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Nelson
N
Lima
CABI, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9TY UK.
Paul
P
Bridge
Biological resource centres; Credibility of science; Deposition policy; Deposition ‘key’ criteria