{"id":561,"date":"2020-07-28T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccap2020.sams.local\/?page_id=561"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:55:32","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/knowledgebase\/links\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"561\" class=\"elementor elementor-561\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c71bd1a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c71bd1a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ca4c176\" data-id=\"ca4c176\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d53d01b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d53d01b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Other Culture Collections and useful resources<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-739990d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"739990d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-788831b\" data-id=\"788831b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0831640 elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"0831640\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-8591\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-8591\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Culture Collections<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-8592\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-8592\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Useful Links<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-8591\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Culture Collections<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-8591\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-8591\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p>Algal Culture Collections:<\/p><p>Europe<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-goettingen.de\/en\/184982.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAG (Sammlung fur Algenkulturen)<\/a> &#8211; Germany<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-due.de\/biology\/ccac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCAC (Central Collection of Algal Cultures; previously Cologne Algal Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; Germany<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/cccryo.fraunhofer.de\/web\/infos\/welcome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCCryo (Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae)<\/a> &#8211; Germany<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mzch-svck.uni-hamburg.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MZCH-SVCK (Microalgae and Zygnematophyceae Collection Hamburg Sammlung von Conjugaten-Kulturen)<\/a> &#8211; Germany<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/botany.natur.cuni.cz\/algo\/caup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAUP (Culture Collection of Algae of Charles University of Prague<\/a> &#8211; Czech Republic<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccala.butbn.cas.cz\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCALA (Culture Collection of Autotrophic Organisms)<\/a> &#8211; Czech Republic<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/roscoff-culture-collection.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RCC (Roscoff Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; France<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/webext.pasteur.fr\/cyanobacteria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PCC (Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria)<\/a> &#8211; France<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/algobank.unicaen.fr\/en\/accueil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Algobank Caen (Collection de Cultures de Microalgues &#8211; Universite de Caen Normandie)<\/a> &#8211; France<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mcam.mnhn.fr\/en\/cyanobacteria-and-live-microalgae-470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMC-ALCP (Paris Museum Collection of Cyanobacteria and the Living Collection of Microalgae)<\/a> &#8211; France<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bccm.belspo.be\/catalogues\/catalogue-search?collection=DCG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCCM\/DCG (Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms: Microalgae)<\/a> &#8211; Belgium<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bccm.belspo.be\/catalogues\/catalogue-search?collection=ULC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCCM\/ULC (Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms: Cyanobacteria)<\/a> &#8211; Belgium<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/en\/web\/bmcc\/collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BMCC (Basque Microalgae Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; Spain<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/marinebiotechnology.org\/es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BEA (Banco Espanol de Algas)<\/a> &#8211; Spain<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/vgohab.com\/coleccion-de-cultivos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCVIEO Culture Collection, focused on HAB species<\/a> &#8211; Spain\u00a0<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/acoi.ci.uc.pt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACOI (Coimbra Collection of Algae)<\/a> &#8211; Portugal<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccba.ug.edu.pl\/pages\/en\/home.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCBA (Culture Collection of Baltic Algae)<\/a> &#8211; Poland<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15468\/gudugm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SZCZ (Szczecin Diatom Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; Poland (<a href=\"http:\/\/geocentrum.usz.edu.pl\/szczecin-diatom-culture-collection-szcz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> not working when checked July 2025)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/norcca.scrol.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NORCCA (Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae at NIVA, incorporating cultures from the former SCCAP)<\/a> &#8211; Norway<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/cyanobacteria.myspecies.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TAU-MAC (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Microalgae and Cyanobacteria Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; Greece<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ogs.it\/en\/collection-marine-microorganisms-cosmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoSMi (Collection of Marine Microorganisms)<\/a> &#8211; Italy<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.cellreg.org\/Collection-IPPAS.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IPPAS Culture Collection (Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences)<\/a> &#8211; Russia<\/li><li>MACC (Mosonmagyarovar Algal Culture Collection) &#8211; Hungary (<a href=\"https:\/\/plantbio.sze.hu\/en_GB\/mosonmagyarovar-algal-culture-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> not working when checked July 2025)<\/li><\/ul><p>North America &amp; Canada<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/utex.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UTEX (Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin)<\/a> &#8211; USA<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ncma.bigelow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCMA (National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota, Bigelow; previously CCMP)<\/a> &#8211; USA<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgcstandards-atcc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATCC (Americal Type Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; USA<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.algalresourcescollection.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARC (Algal Resources Collection &#8211; focused on HAB species)<\/a> &#8211; USA<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/science\/B\/protists\/classification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antarctic Protist Culture Collection<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; USA<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chlamycollection.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Chlamydomonas<\/em> Resource Center<\/a> &#8211; USA<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/tetrahymena.vet.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Tetrahymena<\/em> Stock Center<\/a> &#8211; USA<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/cccm.botany.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCCM (Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms)<\/a> &#8211; Canada<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/canadian-phycological-culture-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CPCC (Canadian Phycological Culture Centre for Algae, Cyanobacteria and Lemna at the University of Waterloo)<\/a> &#8211; Canada<\/li><\/ul><p>Australia &amp; New Zealand<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiro.au\/en\/about\/facilities-collections\/Collections\/ANACC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANACC (Australian National Algae Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; Australia<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/cultures.cawthron.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CICCM (Cawthron Institute Culture Collection of Microalgae)<\/a> &#8211; New Zealand<\/li><\/ul><p>Asia<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mcc.nies.go.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIES Microbial Culture Collection<\/a> &#8211; Japan<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ku-macc.nbrp.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KU-MACC (Kobe University Macroalgal Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; Japan<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tistr.or.th\/tistr_culture\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TISTR Culture Collection (Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research)<\/a> &#8211; Thailand<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/algae.ihb.ac.cn\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FACHB (Freshwater Algae Culture Collection at the Institute of Hydrobiology)<\/a> &#8211; China<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/iranian-national-algae-culture-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INACC (Iranian National Algae Culture Collection)<\/a> &#8211; Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inacc.ir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> not working when checked July 2025)<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-8592\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Useful Links<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-8592\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-8592\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p>Culture Collection Information<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukbrcn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UKBRCN<\/a> &#8211; The United Kingdom Biological Resource Centre Network<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eccosite.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECCO &#8211; European Culture Collections&#8217; Organisation<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfcc.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WFCC &#8211; World Federation for Culture collections<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdcm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WDCM<\/a> &#8211; WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Center for Microorganisms<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gcm.wdcm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WDCM-GCM<\/a> &#8211; global catalogue of strains (covers all types of\u00a0 microorganisms)<\/li><\/ul><p>Growth Media<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mediadive.dsmz.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<em>Dive<\/em> <\/a>&#8211; the world&#8217;s largest collection of cultivation media<\/li><\/ul><p>General Phycology and Protistology:<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/brphycsoc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Phycological Society<\/a> (BPS)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psaalgae.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phycological Society of America<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protistology.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Protistology UK<\/a> &#8211; formerly the British Society for Protist Biology<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.algae-network.eu\/cms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Algal Information Network<\/a> &#8211; developed by EnAlgae to support the development of the algae sector in Europe, part of the GENIALG project<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chlamycollection.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chlamydomonas Resource Centre<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/algaevision.myspecies.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AlgaeVision<\/a> &#8211; database and virtual collection of images of freshwater and terrestrial algae collected in Britain and Ireland<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritschalgae.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fritsch Collection of Freshwater, Brackish and Terrestrial Algal Illustrations<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/websites.rbge.org.uk\/algae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Algae World<\/a> &#8211; information on algae, especially the research and teaching at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/planktonchronicles.org\/en\/episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plankton Chronicles Project<\/a> &#8211; a series of short videos combining art and science, revealing the beauty and diversity of organisms adrift in the currents.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/algaesociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Algae Society &#8211; Bioart Design Lab<\/a> &#8211; A gathering of artists, scholars, and scientists who come together to create artwork, workshops, writings, and exhibitions for the general public to experience algae at the macro and micro levels.<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0Suppliers of bulk cultures and concentrates, and\/or photobioreactors:<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.variconaqua.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Varicon Aqua<\/a> (UK)\u00a0<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algenuity.com\/technologyd4ff9164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Algenuity<\/a>\u00a0(UK)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/industrialplankton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Industrial Plankton<\/a>\u00a0(USA)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/reedmariculture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reed Mariculture<\/a>\u00a0 (USA)<\/li><\/ul><p>Taxonomy and Classification resources:<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algaebase.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AlgaeBase<\/a> &#8211; global algal database of taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyanodb.cz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CyanoDB<\/a> &#8211; online database of cyanobacterial genera<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diatombase.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DiatomBase<\/a> &#8211; online database of diatom genera and information<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk\/diatoms\/Home.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland<\/a> &#8211; web-based diatom flora and comprehensive taxonomic review of diatoms in the British Isles<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinespecies.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WORMS<\/a> &#8211; World Register of Marine Species<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other Culture Collections and useful resources Culture Collections Useful Links Culture Collections Algal Culture Collections: Europe SAG (Sammlung fur Algenkulturen) &#8211; Germany CCAC (Central Collection of Algal Cultures; previously Cologne Algal Culture Collection) &#8211; Germany CCCryo (Culture Collection of Cryophilic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-561","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/561\/revisions\/3630"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccap.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}