| # | Culture Collection | Description / Address |
| 1 | ACOI - Coimbra Collection of Algae | Department of Botany, University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| 2 | ACUF - Algal Collection University Federico II | Collection at the Department of Biology of the University of Naples, Italy |
| 3 | Algobank - Algobank Caen | Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, France |
| 4 | ANACC - Australian National Algae Culture Collection | Hobart Laboratory of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Tasmania, Australia (formely CCLM - CSIRO Collection of Living Microalgae) |
| 5 | APCC - Antarctic Protist Culture Collection | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod), USA |
| 6 | ARC - Algal Resources Collection | Collection focused on HAB species with special emphasis on the toxic taxa, USA |
| 7 | ATCC - American Type Culture Collection | nonprofit, global biological resource center and standards organization, LGC Standards |
| 8 | BCCM - Belgian Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms | BCCM/DCG Diatoms, Ghent University and BCCM/ULC Cyanobacteria, University of Liege, Belgium |
| 9 | BEA - Banco Español de Algas (Spanish Bank of Algae) | Marine Biotechnology Center of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| 10 | BMCC - Basque Microalgae Culture Collection | Collection maintains marine and freshwater microalgae and cyanobacteria, mostly from the Basque Country |
| 11 | CAUP - Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University of Praque | Department of Botany, Praha, Czech Republic |
| 12 | CCAC - Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne | Botanisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany |
| 13 | CCALA - Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms | Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, TREBON |
| 14 | CCAM - Culture Collection of Algae Marburg | Department of Cell Biology and Applied Botany, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany |
| 15 | CCAP - Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa | Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| 16 | CCCM - Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms | Department of Botany, University Boulevard, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Contain: NEPCC - North East Pacific Culture Collection (marine algae) and FWAC - Freshwater Algal Culture Collection |
| 17 | CCCryo - Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae | Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT in Potsdam-Golm |
| 18 | CCMEE - Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments | Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Oregon, transferred to the University of Texas Culture Collection UTEX, USA |
| 19 | CCVIEO - Culture Collection | Collection focused on marine HAB microalgae, Spain |
| 20 | CICCM - The Cawthron Institute Culture Collection of Microalgae | CICCM is a natinally significant living collection in New Zealand |
| 21 | CODIMAR - Marine Dinoflagellates Collection | Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico |
| 22 | CPCC- Canadian Phycological Culture Centre | Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo (formerly UTCC - University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria) |
| 23 | CRC - Chlamydomonas Resource Center |
Chlamydomonas Resource Center, USA. An Online Informatics Resource for Chlamydomonas |
| 24 | EGE-MACC Ege University Microalgae Culture Collection | Ege University Bioengineering Department, Turkey |
| 25 | FACHB - Freshwater Algae Culture Collection of the CAS | Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, China |
| 26 | GUMACC - Göteborg University Marine Culture Collection | Department of Marine Ecology, Göteborg University, Sweden |
| 27 | InaCC - Indonesian Culture Collection | National depository for microorganisms under the management the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia |
| 28 | KAC - Kalmar Algae Collection | Toxic Marine Phytoplankton Cultures, Dept. of Marine Sciences, Kalmar University, Sweden |
| 29 | KU-MACC - Kobe University Macro-Algal Culture Collection | Kobe University Research Center for Inland Seas (KURCIS) |
| 30 | Loras College Freshwater Diatom Culture Collection | Loras College Freshwater Diatom Collection was transferred in 2006 from Loras College, Iowa, USA to UTEX |
| 31 | MZCH-SVCK - Microalgae Zygnemataceae Collection Hamburg | Institut für Allgemeine Botanik der Universität Hamburg, Germany (formerly SVCK - Sammlung von Conjugaten-Kulture) |
| 32 | NBRC - NITE Biological Resource Center | National Institute of Technology and Evaluation NITE, Chiba, Japan (MBIC - Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture collection were transferred to NITE in October 2006) |
| 33 | NCIM - National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms | National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India |
| 34 | NCMA - National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota | Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine, U.S.A (formely CCMP The Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton) |
| 35 | NIES Collection | Microbial Culture Collection at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (MCC NIES), Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 36 | NORCCA - Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae | NORCCA maintained and owned by Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the University of Oslo (UiO) includes algal strains from the two instituties and the former SCCAP |
| 37 | PCC - Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| 38 | PLY - Plymouth Culture Collection of Marine Algae, now MBA Collection (Marine Biological Association) | Microbiome Centre, Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK |
| 39 | RCC - Roscoff Culture Collection | Station Biologique, Roscoff, France |
| 40 | SAG - Sammlung von Algenkulturen der Universität Göttingen | Culture Collection of Algae (SAG) at the University of Göttingen, Germany |
| 41 | SCCAP - Scandinavian Culture Centre for Algae and Protozoa, now SCCAP has been merged with the NIVA CCA (Culture Collection of Algae) in Norway | Institute for Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, now in the NIVA Culture Collection of Algae in NORCCA, Norway |
| 42 | TAU-MAC Culture Collection | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, MicroAlgae and Cyanobacteria culture collection, Greece |
| 43 | TCC - Thonon Culture Collection | National network R-SYST, France |
| 44 | TISTR Culture Collection | Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Thailand |
| 45 | UTEX - Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin | University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA |
Useful links
| 1 | AlgaeBase - global algal database | Database of information on algae that includes terrestrial, marine and freshwater organisms |
| 2 | CyanoDB - reference tool for taxonomists | Online database of cyanobacterial genera |
| 3 | DiatomBase - diatom names catalogues | Online database of diatom genera |
| 4 | ECCO - European Culture Collections Organisation | Promoting collaboration and exchange of ideas and information about all aspects of culture collection activity |
| 5 | WDCM - WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms | World Data Centre for Microorganisms, Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 6 | WFCC - World Federation for Culture Collections | WFCC is a Multidisciplinary Commission of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and a Federation within the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) |
| 7 | WORMS - World Register of Marine Species | An authoritative classification and catalogue of marine names |
Books - Algal culture
| 1 | Algal Culturing Techniques - 2005, Robert Andersen (Ed.) |
| 2 | Handbook of Microalgal Culture: Biotechnology and Applied Phycology - 2004, Amos Richmond (Ed.) |
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