Clone and genomic repositories at the American Type Culture Collection
- American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, MD (United States)
The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) has a long history of characterizing, preserving, and distributing biological resource materials for the scientific community. Starting in 1925 as a repository for standard bacterial and fungal strains, its collections have diversified with technologic advances and in response to the requirements of its users. To serve the needs of the human genetics community, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), established an international Repository of Human DNA Probes and Libraries at the ATCC in 1985. This repository expanded the existing collections of recombinant clones and libraries at the ATCC, with the specific purposes of (1) obtaining, amplifying, and distribution probes detecting restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs); (2) obtaining, amplifying, and distributing genomic and cDNA clones from known genes independent of RFLP detection; (3) distributing the chromosome-specific libraries generated by the National Laboratory Gene Library Project at the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories and (4) maintaining a public, online database describing the repository materials. Because it was recognized that animal models and comparative mapping can be crucial to genomic characterization, the scope of the repository was broadened in February 1989 to include probes from the mouse genome.
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG05-88ER60686
- OSTI ID:
- 7302996
- Journal Information:
- Genomics; (United States), Vol. 8; ISSN 0888-7543
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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