Ma J, Miyazaki S, Sugawara H
CAS The Institute of Microbiology, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Comput Appl Biosci. 1995 Apr;11(2):209-12. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/11.2.209.
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.
菌种保藏机构是可培养微生物、细胞系和基因文库的储存库。它们的作用和职责是为生物医学领域提供生物资源；然而，公众对它们的了解程度较低，因为大多数菌种保藏机构在互联网上的访问性仍然很差。因此，世界菌种保藏联合会世界微生物数据中心（WDCM）开发了一个运行在IBM个人电脑及其兼容机上的数据库，这些电脑是最普及的计算机，其功能将与工作站一样强大。该数据库包含各种信息：来自58个国家的484个菌种保藏机构的活动情况；它们所保存的细菌、真菌和酵母的综合清单；以及菌种保藏机构的数据录入系统。
