Welcome to the Leibniz Institute DSMZ

German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH

Research

The research focus of the almost 100 scientists at the DSMZ are the various aspects of biodiversity in prokaryotes & eukaryotes.

Research groups

Collection

In our online shop we offer the most diverse portfolio of bioresources for researchers from academia & industry.

Catalogue

Services

We offer a comprehensive portfolio of services like identification, characterization, specific analyses & online tools.

Services

News

Current release also introduces new design and genome browser

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Neue Version mit modernem Design und Genombrowser

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Dr Markus Göker and Dr Andrey M. Yurkov are ‘Highly Cited Researchers 2025’

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Markus Göker und Dr. Andrey M. Yurkov sind „Highly Cited Researcher 2025“

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Die herausragenden Forschenden Dr. Marion C. Müller und Dr. Stephan Winter erhielten renommierte Auszeichnungen

 

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Bioresources

Bacteria

> 40,300 strains

Archaea

> 800 strains

Plant viruses

> 995 viruses

Human & Animal Cell Lines

> 970 cell lines

Plasmids

> 250 plasmids

Fungi & Yeasts

> 10,200 strains

Bacteriophages

> 1,500 phages

Cyanobacteria & Protists

> 170 bioresources

Research

In the focus ...

Phosphonate natural products are a unique yet largely underexplored class of bioactive metabolites with considerable pharmaceutical and…

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BacDive

The Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Our metadatabase of organism-linked information covering the multifarious aspects of bacterial and archaeal biodiversity.
 

TYGS

Type (Strain) Genome Server

TYGS offers a truly genome-based classification and identification of prokaryotic strains without overestimating phylogenetic confidence.

LPSN

List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

LPSN is a compilation of all names of Bacteria & Archaea which have been validly published according to the Bacteriological Code.

Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Profile Search

Analysis of Short Tandem Repeats

Since STR microsatellites are stable as well as highly polymorphic in human populations, STR profiling is shown to be ideal for authentication of human cell line samples.