CABRI

CABRI provides centralized access to biological resources catalogued by European Biological Resource Centres (BRCs), enabling standardized discovery and retrieval of living materials including bacterial and fungal cultures, animal, human and plant cells, viruses, and isolated genetic material.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Data Access: Centralized metadata and catalogues for biological materials held across European BRCs and culture collections.
• Digitalisation and Standardization: Digitalised records with harmonized data handling, standardized laboratory protocols, and quality control measures.
• Coordination and Integration: Adoption of communication standards and web services to integrate distributed repositories and enable data exchange.
• Interoperability Initiatives: Promotion of standardized data formats and interoperability measures to improve cross-repository data use.

Scientific Applications:

• Research and Development: Access to diverse biological materials to support discovery and development of biological products in microbiology, genetics, biotechnology, and medicine.
• Standardization Efforts: Support for harmonizing research methodologies through shared protocols and quality control metadata.
• Collaborative Research: Facilitation of multi-institutional and cross-disciplinary studies by integrating resource catalogues from multiple collections.

Methodology:

Digitalisation, data standardization and integration of catalogue metadata, and use of web services and modern communication technologies to ensure interoperability across systems.