World Federation for Culture Collections – https://www.wfcc.info/

World Data Centre for Microorganisms – https://www.wdcm.org/

FAO – Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture – https://www.fao.org/cgrfa/topics/micro-organisms-and-invertebrates/en

National organisations

Belgian Coordinated Collections of Microorganisms – https://bccm.belspo.be/

BioMemory Project (Italy)- https://biomemory.cnr.it/

The Czech National Programme on Conservation and Utilization of Microbial Genetic Resources and Invertebrates of Agricultural Importance – https://www.microbes.cz/indexangl.html

Estonian electronic microbial database – https://eemb.ut.ee/eng/eemb_english_introduction_list.php?page=list

Italian Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure – https://www.mirri-it.it/

The Portuguese microBiological Resource Centre Network (Pt-mBRCN) – https://www.mbrcn.pt/

The United States Culture Collection Network - https://usccn.org/

Databases

StrainInfo – https://straininfo.dsmz.de/

CABRI (Common Access to Biological Resources and Information) – http://www.cabri.org/

BioMemory Project – https://biomemory.cnr.it/search/

European Virus Archive – https://www.european-virus-archive.com/

Estonian electronic microbial database – https://eemb.ut.ee/eng/eemb_english_introduction_list.php?page=list

International Projects

The Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (MIRRI-ERIC) – https://www.mirri.org/

Microbes4Climate – https://microbes4climate.eu/

Laws and rules

The Convention on Biological Diversity – https://www.cbd.int/

Methodology

BioMemory Project – https://biomemory.cnr.it/protocols/

CABRI (Common Access to Biological Resources and Information) – http://www.cabri.org/