role of barcoding at culture collections
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Role of Barcoding at Culture Collections
Frithjof C. Küpper
Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP)
Scottish Association for Marine Science
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
Oban, Argyll PA37 1QA, Scotland, UK
Barcoding and Culture Collections
Two main aspects:
• CCs as repositories of biological standards
• Operational benefits of barcode sequences for CCs
Barcoding and Culture Collections
Two main aspects:
• CCs as repositories of biological standards
• Operational benefits of barcode sequences for CCs
Culture collections as repositories
of biological standards
• Long-term safekeeping of type cultures and model / reference strains
→ Barcode sequences in databases need to be matched by the “real thing“ somewhere: type materials
→ An emerging role for CCs and other biological resource centers (BRCs)
Barcoding and Culture Collections
Two main aspects:
• CCs as repositories of biological standards
• Operational benefits of barcode sequences for CCs
Operational benefits of barcode sequences for
culture collections
• Quality control / strain identity
→ Potential to obtain an unambiguous identifier for every single strain
• “the dirty little secret of culture collections”
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Credits
Chenal de l’Ile de Batz, Roscoff – FCK, 1996
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Scotland
Thank you.
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