AsianScientist (Sep. 16, 2016) – Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have released the first report on China’s microbial resource development.
Microbial resources have immense industrial value and may be the largest natural resource on Earth that has yet to be effectively developed and utilized. Hence, the research and utilization of microbial resources by modern technology has become a strategic focus of global biological resource competition.
The World Data Center for Microorganisms (WDCM), working with the Center for Microbial Resources and Big Data of the Institute of Microbiology at CAS, have released a report that describes and evaluates the development of microbial research in China. The record also provides a reference for formulating research plans.
To prepare the report, scientists analyzed papers and patents related to microbial research based on microbial resource collections in China. According to the findings, China achieved significant progress in research on microbial resources from 2001 to 2015. Globally, China ranks first in patent culture collection and is second only to the United States in the volume of papers in the field of microorganisms.
And according to statistics from the Culture Collections Information Worldwide, a world directory of all registered culture collections, China has 33 culture collection centers, with 182,235 sharable bacterial strains, ranking it fourth in the world.
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Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences; Photo: Pixabay.
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