
%0 Journal Article
%A Sugawara, Hideaki 
%T WFCC-MIRCEN: world data centre for microorganisms
%J Microbiology Australia
%D 2006/03/01
%V 27
%N 1
%P 13-15
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MA06013
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MA06013 
%X In the 1960s, microbiology and culture collection experts met several times to develop a strategic plan to foster microbial culture collections. They quickly recognised that statistics on the activities of culture collections worldwide were not available and that there was a need for a ?world directory of collections of cultures of microorganisms? that accumulated information on culture collections. It was obvious also that a world data centre for microorganisms was required to develop and maintain the directory. 
