| URL: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biocollections |
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| Description: | A curated set of metadata for culture collections, museums, herbaria and other natural history collections. The records display collection codes, information about the collections' home institutions, and links to relevant data at NCBI. |
| Year founded: | 2018 |
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Accessible
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| Country/Region: | United States |
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| University/Institution: | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| Address: | Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA |
| City: | Bethesda |
| Province/State: | MD |
| Country/Region: | United States |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | BioCollections team |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | gb-admin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
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The NCBI BioCollections Database. [PMID: 29688360]
The rapidly growing set of GenBank submissions includes sequences that are derived from vouchered specimens. These are associated with culture collections, museums, herbaria and other natural history collections, both living and preserved. Correct identification of the specimens studied, along with a method to associate the sample with its institution, is critical to the outcome of related studies and analyses. The National Center for Biotechnology Information BioCollections Database was established to allow the association of specimen vouchers and related sequence records to their home institutions. This process also allows cross-linking from the home institution for quick identification of all records originating from each collection. Database URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biocollections |