European Consortium of Microbial Resources Centres (EMbaRC): Secure the future of microbial resources at laboratory scale

• Author(s): Lortal, Sylvie ; Bizet, Chantal ; Bouchier, Christiane ; Stackebrandt, Erko ; Smith, D. ; Arahal, David R. ; Desmeth, Philippe ; Lima, Nelson ; Verkleij, G. J. M. ; Stalpers, J. ; De Vos, P. ; Declerck, Stéphane
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/22265
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Document Type: Other
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho

Description

[Excerpt] EMbaRC is an EU project which aims to improve, coordinate and validate microbial resource centre (MRC) delivery to the European and International researchers. To ensure harmonisation of the quality of MRCs, EMbaRC plans to take the current OECD best practice guidelines and emerging national standards for Biological Resource Centres (BRCs) to the international level. Outreach and training activities will ensure that not only the consortium but that all European collections operate to the standards required to deliver products and services of consistent quality thus meeting customer needs. A one-stop access to the collections of EMbaRC and the wider European BRC community via a searchable web portal building on the outcomes of the CABRI and EBRCN is being developed. (...)