Microalgal Culture Collection Transfers

The Milford Microalgal culture Collection holds over 200 live cultures representing 13 classes of of algae. The cultures are maintained in three different growing media and are routinely transferred into fresh growth media four times a year. A bacterial/mold contaminant test culture is done for each transfer. Date of transfer and bacterial test results are recorded.

To record the status of the cultures

NEFSC Data Access Procedure:

1. Formal request in writing usually to the data owner/contact or Center Director;

2. Requester is contacted by data owner to review and verify the request content and details for data delivery options.

3. If data is confidential then owner will determine if the data may be released to the requester;

4. If data can be released, the data is downloaded and packaged for delivery electronically; or the requester may be directed to where the data is available online.

NEFSC Data Access Constraint:

If data is stored on an internal NEFSC network, the requester may not have direct access to query the data unless they are also authorized for network access.

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Some cultures have been lost due to adverse conditions

Bacteria test has quality controls

Scheduled backups for data saved to local network, Remote backups

Cultures are dated, bacterial tests are run in one month and data is entered into Excel file