 ACM | | The Asian Consortium for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Microbial Resources |
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| ARS(NRRL) | | Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USA |
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| ATCC | | American Type Culture Collection, USA |
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| BCCM™ | | Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms, Belgium - LMBP Plasmid and cDNA Collection - LMG Bacterial Collection - IHEM Biomedical Fungi & Yeasts Collection - MUCL (Agro)industrial Fungi & Yeasts Collection |
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| BCRC | | Bioresources Collection and Research Center, Taiwan |
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| CABI-GRC | | CABI Bioscience Genetic Resource Collection |
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| CABRI | | Common Access to Biological Resources and Information |
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| CBS | | Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, the Netherlands |
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| CCAP | | Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, UK |
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| CCM | | Czech Collection of Microorganisms, the Czech Republic |
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| CCUG | | Culture Collection, University of Goteborg, Sweden |
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| CECT | | Spanish Type Culture Collection, Spain |
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| CIP | | Centre de Ressources Biologiques de I'Institut Pasteur, France |
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| DSMZ | | Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Germany |
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| FGSC | | Fungal Genetics Stock Center, USA |
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| HAMBI | | Culture Collection of Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Finland |
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| HUT | | HUT Culture Collection, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter Hiroshima University, Japan |
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| IAM | | IAM Culture Colletion, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
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| IFO | | Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Japan (The collection has been transferred to NBRC) |
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| JCM | | Japan Collection of Microorganisms (RIKEN Bioresource Center) |
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| NBIMCC | | National Bank for Industrial Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Bulgaria |
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| NBRC | | NITE Biological Resource Center, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan |
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| NCCB | | Netherlands Culture Collection of Bacteria (formerly LMD and Phabagen Collection) |
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| NCIMB | | National Collections of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria, UK |
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| NCTC | | National Collection of Type Cultures, UK |
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| NCYC | | National Collection of Yeast Cultures, UK |
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| NIES | | National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) |
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| PCC | | Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria, France |
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| PCM | | Polish Collection of Microorganisms, Poland |
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| RIKEN BRC | | RIKEN BioResource Center, Japan |
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| UAMH | | University of Alberta Microfungus Collection and Herbarium, Canada |
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| UKNCC | | United Kingdom National Culture Collection, UK |
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| USFCC | | US Federation for Culture Collections, USA |
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| VKM | | All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms, Russia |
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| WDCM | | WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms |
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| WFCC | | World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) |
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| WIPO | | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) |
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| 특허청 | | 특허청 화학생명공학심사본부 |
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| EFCC | | 동충하초 은행 (Entomopathogenic Fungal Culture Collection) |
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| HRC | | 경북의대 모발연구센터 (Hair Research Center) |
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| KACC | | 한국농업미생물자원센터 (Korean Agricultural Culture Collection) |
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| KCCM | | 한국 미생물 보존 센터 (Korean Culture Center of Microorganisms) |
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| KCLB | | 한국 세포주 은행 (Korean Cell Line Bank) |
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| DSMZ | | Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-date (by the DSMZ) |
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| LPSN | | List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in nomenclature (Formerly List of Bacterial names with Standing in Nomenclature:LBSN), France |
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| CCARM | | 항생제내성균주은행 (Culture Collection of Antibiotics Resistant Microbes) |
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| CCDBM | | 야생버섯균주은행 (Culture Collection of DNA bank of Mushrooms) |
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| ECUM | | 희귀 유용 미생물 추출물 은행 (Extract Collection of Useful Microorganism) |
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| HpKTCC | | 헬리코박터 파이로리 분리균주은행(Helicobacter pylori Korean Type Culture Collection) |
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| KBPV | | 병원성바이러스 은행((Bank for Pathogenic Viruses) |
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| KEMC | | 환경산업미생물 및 유전자은행(Korea Environmental Microorganism Center) |
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| KMCC | | 한국 해양 미세조류은행 (Korean Marine Microalgae Culture Center) |
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| PVGB | | 식물바이러스 유전자은행 (Plant Virus GenBank) |
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