Accessing Biological Resources

• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• National Biodiversity Authority, India (NBA)
• The Access and Benefit Sharing Clearing House (ABSCH)
• The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)
• World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC)

Transporting Biological Resources

• Good Microbiological Practices and Procedures (GMPP)
• Guidance on regulations for the Transport of Infectious Substances (WHO)
• Infectious Substances Shipping Guidelines (IATA)
• The Association for Biosafety and Biosecurity (ABSA)

Microbial Taxonomy and Systematics

• Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)
• Bergey’s International Society for Microbial Systematics (BISMiS)
• Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB)
• EzBioCloud (EzBC)
• List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)

Other Culture Collections in India

• Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank (MTCC)
• National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (NBAIM)
• National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (NCIM)
• National Fungal Culture Collection of India (NFCCI)

For NCMR

• National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS)
• NCMR-NCCS Intranet (IntraNCMR)