Edition 8 - November, 2000
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This edition of BCCM News describes the BCCM home page on the Internet. The BCCM site presents the mission of the BCCM consortium and describes the main activities of the BCCM collections. The menu on your left guides you through the different pages.
The BCCM collections have a wealth of information about the biological material in their holdings. To facilitate data retrieval, the BCCM’s catalogues of strains and plasmids have been made available on the Internet. Searches can on the basis of species name and accession numbers as well as of the properties of a strain and its possible applications, conditions for growth, geographic or biological origin, pathogenicity, and so on. The composition of the recommended medium is also given for each strain.
Once you have selected a strain or plasmid, you can order it by clicking on ‘material ordering’ and providing the information required.
With this newsletter, the BCCM/LMBP plasmid collection invites you to take a guided tour through the on-line plasmid database.
Hard copies of the catalogues and other printed documents can be requested by means of the form under the "printed documents" menu.
The BCCM has been recognised as an ‘International Depositary Authority’ and so is able to accept patent deposits under the Budapest Treaty on the international recognition of the depositing of microorganisms for the purposes of patenting. The BCCM collections can accept bacteria, filamentous and yeast fungi, human and animal cell lines (including hybridomas) and genetic material (e.g. plasmids, oncogenes, RNA) as patent deposits under the Budapest Treaty. To assist depositors, a flowchart describing the deposit procedure has been produced. By clicking on each box in the flowchart, you can obtain detailed information. The forms needed to perform a deposit with the BCCM are also available on line.
The BCCM site also has the full text of the Budapest Treaty and its Regulations as well as links to other interesting sites about patent deposits (e.g. the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization).
The BCCM have coordinated the concerted project MOSAICC1 : "Micro-Organisms Sustainable Use and Access Regulation International Code of Conduct". Within this project, a voluntary code of conduct was developed as a tool to support the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, Rio de Janeiro 5 June 1992) at the microbial level in accordance with other relevant rules of international and national laws. The code of conduct describes how the access to, and the transfer of, microbial genetic resources can be monitored. Its full text can also be downloaded from the BCCM site.
Last but not least, this and all previous editions of BCCM News are also published on the web site. You thus have an opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter and so to be informed about the future developments in the activities of the BCCM. We invite you to pay us a visit at http://www.belspo.be/bccm, and we welcome all comments and suggestions for the improvement of our site.
1. The MOSAICC project was supported by the European Commission DG XII for Science, Research and Development.
Contact
Mr. François Guissart BCCM
Coordination team
Tel.: +32 2 238 36 41
Fax: +32 2 230 59 12
E-mail: guis@belspo.be
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