Deposit of microbial strains in public service collections as part of the publication process to underpin good practice in science

• Autor(a) principal: Stackebrandt, Erko
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Smith, D., Casaregola, Serge, Varese, Giovanna, Verkley, G. J. M., Lima, Nelson, Bridge, P.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/31477
• topic: Biological resource centres; Deposition policy; Credibility of science; Deposition ‘key’ criteria; Science & Technology

Despite recommendations to release microbial resources to the community post-publication, the reality is far from satisfying. A workshop discussed the need for a coordinated and effective deposition policy for 'key' microbial strains and proposes a set of criteria to facilitate their deposition into public service collections. The majority of authors either contacted directly or during submission of manuscripts to several international, mainly European bacteriology journals agreed to this set of 'key strain' criteria and to the voluntarily deposition of resources into public resource centres.