WORLD FEDERATION FOR CULTURE COLLECTIONS

Number 36

December 2002

An Interdisciplinary Commission of the International Union of Biological Sciences
and the International Union of Microbiological Societies

Informatics issue

IN THIS ISSUE

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility 1
The CBS Collection database 3
On line database of the culture collection of marine microorganisms at Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture collection (MBIC) 9
The status quo of microbial genomic data available in the public domain: archaea and bacteria 13
A proposal of Common Standards of Data Exchange and Interconnectivity for the Global Network of Biological Resources Centers 19
Access to Biological Collection Data Schema 31
United States Federation for Culture Collections 40
Good news for endangered collections 42
Calendar of events and the announcement of ISBA'13 43
WFCC executive board / WFCC committees 45