Organisations, Projects and Databases

Acronym Description
WFCC World Federation for Culture Collections
ECCO European Culture Collections' Organisation
MIRRI EU Project: Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure
Sektion Phykologie Section of Phycology of the German Botanical Society
Algaebase Listing of the Worlds Algae

Culture Collections worldwide

Acronym Description
ACOI Coimbra Collection of Algae, Coimbra (PRT)
ALGOBANK The microalgal culture collection at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (FR)
ANACC CSIRO Australian National Algae Culture Collection, Hobart (AU)
BCCM/DCG Diatoms Collection at Ghent University (BE)
BEA Banco Español de Algas, Gran Canaria (ES)
CAUP Culture Collection of Algae at Charles University, Prague (CZ)
CRC Chlamydomonas Resource Center, St. Paul, Minnesota (US)
CCAC Central Collection of Algal Cultures at the University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
CCALA Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms, Třeboň (CZ)
CCAP Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Oban (GB)
CCCryo Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae, Potsdam-Golm (DE)
CPCC Canadian Phycological Culture Centre, Waterloo, Ontario (CA)
MZCH Microalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg, Hamburg (DE)
NCMA National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota, East Boothbay, Maine (US)
NIES Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba (JP)
NIVA Culture Collection of Algae at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (merged with SCCAP to become NORCCA)
NORCCA Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae, Oslo (NO)
PCC Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacterial Strains, Paris (FR)
PLY Plymouth Culture Collection of Marine Microalgae (GB) (limited access)
RCC Roscoff Culture Collection, Brittany (FR)
SCCAP Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Copenhagen (DK) (merged with NIVA-CCA to become NORCCA)
UTEX The Culture Collection of Algae at The University of Texas at Austin (US)