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ARS Culture Collection

The ARS Culture Collection data portal is a data sharing platform for people working with microbial strains housed in the ARS Culture Collection (NRRL) (https://nrrl.ncaur.usda.gov/). The user community can access data already generated by other researchers on strains of interest and can contribute data generated on strains they requested from the collection. The vision of this initiative is to create a virtuous cycle of data sharing, in which the ARS Culture Collection provides microbial strains to the user community at no charge, and the user community in return deposits data generated on those strains to a publicly available database such as NCBI. This will continue to add value to strains in the collection and accelerate the speed of research through data access.

The ARS Culture Collection (NRRL) is one of the world’s largest publicly accessible microbial collections and is responsible for breakthroughs that have increased agricultural productivity, enabled people to live longer and healthier lives, and contributed to a $175 billion per year bioeconomy in the U.S. At the heart of NRRL’s impact is a collection of nearly 100,000 bacteria and fungi developed through more than 100 years of scientific discovery. The NRRL is a unique and irreplaceable scientific asset that annually provides over 4,000 microbial cultures to scientists in more than 40 countries. These cultures have contributed to scientific advances described in more than 68,000 publications and patents as listed on Google Scholar.

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ARS Culture Collection Datasets

1295 datasets

Kluyveromyces aestuarii ATCC 18862 genome sequencing

National Center for Biotechnology Information
    The sequenced strain is in the American Type Culture Collection and are also known by other names such as: MY 111, A 220, ATCC 56491, CBS 4438, CCRC 22014, DBVPG 6307, IFO 10597, NRRL YB-4510, UCD 61-29.

    Fusarium oxysporum multi-isolate transcriptome

    National Center for Biotechnology Information
      Genus Fusarium has had a very negative impact on the world economy yet also holds a great potential for answering many fundamental biological questions. Collectively, Fusarium spp.

      Well-studied laboratory strain

      National Center for Biotechnology Information
        Bacillus subtilis subsp. spizizenii str. W23 Bacillus subtilis subsp. spizizenii str. W23(= BGSC 2A9 = NRRL B-14472), along with B. subtilis 168, are the two primary laboratory strains used during the 50-year history of B. subtilis genetics. Many B.

        WGS sequencing

        National Center for Biotechnology Information
          The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is sequencing the Thielavia terrestris strain NRRL 8126 genome using whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing.

          Antibiotic producing strain

          National Center for Biotechnology Information
            Streptomyces roseosporus NRRL 11379. Streptomyces roseosporus NRRL 11379 produces the antibiotic daptomycin which is effective against vancomycin- and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

            Antibiotic produceing strain

            National Center for Biotechnology Information
              Streptomyces roseosporus NRRL 15998. Streptomyces roseosporus NRRL 15998 produces the antibiotic daptomycin which is effective against vancomycin- and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

              Soil isolate

              National Center for Biotechnology Information
                Bacillus pseudomycoides DSM 12442. Bacillus pseudomycoides DSM 12442, also known as NRRL B617, is the type strain and will be used for comparative analysis with other soil Bacillus isolates.