Depositing

We welcome the addition of published and characterized strains of biotechnologically important strains and plasmids. We also accept uncharacterized strains in need of further study, and strains from retiring laboratories, on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us.

Ship all cultures and plasmids to:

Low Kheng Oon

MGLCC – Malaysia Genetic and Living Culture Collection
Malaysia Genome Institute
National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia
Jalan Bangi
43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

For each submitted culture and plasmid, at a minimum, include the strain / plasmid name and reference. If you would like to include more, use some or all of the categories below and email the information for each strain or plasmid in MS Word or as a PDF.

Cultures

• Source (the person and institution depositing the strain)
• Strain (name of the strain)
• Alleles, locus and chromosome (list whatever mutant alleles are in the strain and to what loci and chromosome they correspond)
• Background (e.g. K strain, etc)
• Culture maintenance (light conditions, special media, temperature, etc)
• Comment (whatever else you want to say about it)
• Reference (the primary publication describing the strain, and any others that are important)

Plasmids

• Source (the person and institution depositing the strain)
• Plasmid (name of the plasmid)
• Vector
• Host strain (if it’s a bacterial culture)
• Origin (how it was constructed)
• Insert (content, size, restriction site; e.g. “nuclear DNA, 8.0 EcoRI-KpnI fragment”)
• Selection (e.g. ampicillin resistant)
• Comment (whatever else you want to say about it)
• Reference (the primary publication describing the strain, and any others that are important)

Plasmid depositions should include a map and/ sequence