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.

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Services

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

Services

News

The Leibniz Institute DSMZ in Braunschweig, Germany, has the world's largest collection of plant viruses

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Das Leibniz-Institut DSMZ in Braunschweig verfügt über die weltweit größte Pflanzenviren-Sammlung

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Invitation to the journalists’ seminar “On the hunt for new antibiotics and active substances from bacteria” at the DSMZ in Braunschweig on the 14th…

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Leibniz Institute DSMZ has been certified in quality management for 20 years

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Seit 20 Jahren ist das Leibniz-Institut DSMZ zertifiziert

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Bioresources

Bacteria

> 38,300 strains

Archaea

> 780 strains

Plant viruses

> 930 viruses

Human & Animal Cell Lines

> 940 cell lines

Plasmids

> 250 plasmids

Fungi & Yeasts

> 9,600 strains

Bacteriophages

> 1,400 phages

Cyanobacteria & Protists

> 160 bioresources

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.