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The Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms (BCCM) is a Belgian government funded consortium of seven scientific institutions, who manage and exploit a collection of microbial and genetic resources. The consortium comprises more than 86,000 publicly available bacterial strains, filamentous fungi, yeasts, diatoms and plasmids. ==History== In 1983 the Belgian Council of Ministers decided to bring the microbial resources and the expertise available in different Belgian institutes together in a network of culture collections: with this the consortium of Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Microorganisms (BCCM) saw the light of day. In 1983, the BCCM consortium consisted of the microbial collections ofone public scientific institution and two universities: * the collection of medical yeast and fungi of the Mycology Laboratory of the Scientific Institute of Public Health (BCCM/IHEM) * the collection of environmental yeast and fungi of the Université Catholique de Louvain (BCCM/MUCL) * the bacteria collection of the Laboratory for Microbiology of the Faculty of Sciences of Ghent University (BCCM/LMG). In 1990 the plasmid collection of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Ghent University was added to the consortium (BCCM/LMBP). In 2011, 3 additional niche collections were included in the BCCM consortium: * the diatom collection of the Laboratory for Protistology & Aquatic Ecology of Gent University (BCCM/DCG) * the mycobacteria collection of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (BCCM/ITM) * the cyanobacteria collection of the Centre for Protein Engineering of the University of Liège (BCCM/ULC). ==Collection== Micro-organisms are an important raw material in biotechnology. The properties of bacteria, fungi, yeasts and diatoms are used in countless industrial applications and processes. Consider, for example, fermentation processes and the use of probiotics in foods, the production of antibiotics in medicine, the use of microorganisms as growth promoting elements in agriculture and aids to bioremediation on polluted sites, etc. Not only that, but we do not yet know the properties of every microbial species. Therefore public culture collections truly are a treasure trove of biological material, which can be explored through screening projects, for example. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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