All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms – VKM
September 9, 2022Collection Website
WDCM Identifier
342
Organizational structure
Academia
Collection Institution/Entity
IBPM RAS
Collection Contact
VKM IT
Position of Collection contact
IT
Collection Email
Collection Phone
+7 916 714 5451
- Has continued institutional support
- Ability to accept orphan collections
Collection Category
Publicly available (qualified curator, collection management policies, microbial specimens, a database of collection information, an online strain catalog, and distributes strains to the scientific community)
Collection follows best management practice guideline
OECD Best Practices Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres (https://www.oecd.org/health/biotech/oecdbestpracticeguidelinesforbiologicalresourcecentres.htm), World Federation for Culture Collections Guidelines (http://www.wfcc.info/guidelines/)
Organisms in Collection
Fungi, Bacteria, Yeast
Funding Sources for Research performed with Collection specimens
Availability and distribution mechanisms
Fee per strain for distribution
Services provided by Collection
Patent deposits, Storage service (safe deposit), Strain isolation/taxonomic identification, Contract screening, Consulting
Genus in Collection
Species: 5318, Quantity: 21592
Research fields relevant to Collection
Freeze drying and cryopreservation, General microbiology, Genetics, Molecular biology, Systematics and taxonomy