Research
The research focus of the almost 100 scientists at the DSMZ are the various aspects of biodiversity in prokaryotes & eukaryotes.
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Bioresources
Bacteria
28,000 strains
Archaea
2,300 strains
Plant viruses
760 viruses
Human & Animal Cell Lines
830 cell lines
Plasmids
about 460 plasmids
Fungi & Yeasts
6,340 strains
Bacteriophages
673 phages
Protists
47 strains
Research
In the focus ...
New parsley virus discovered by Braunschweig researchers
Plant virologists Dr. Björn Krenz and Dr. Stephan Winter from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures in Braunschweig and his colleagues have identified a new parsley virus and published in the peer-review journal Archives of Virology. More ...
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.
PNU
Nomenclature up-to-date
Nomenclature up-to-date 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.