Photo Credit: GMbC biobank of isolated human gut bacterial strains. ©Global Microbiome Conservancy / Photo by Mathilde Poyet.
Advance Your Research Through the GMbC Collection
The Global Microbiome Conservancy (GMbC) Collection—the most globally representative microbiome biobank of its kind—has radically expanded scientists’ view of the human microbiome. Read more to learn how we can move your non clinical, non-commerical research forward.
What is in the GMbC Collection?
The Global Microbiome Conservancy (GMbC) collection contains stool samples from more than 1,200 individuals in 36 diverse, underrepresented communities. From these samples the GMbC consortium has prepared
- 1,000 metagenomic surveys
- 10,000 genome-sequenced bacterial cultures
The collection represents more than 450 species groups and covers a wide range of bacterial taxa across multiple phyla, including from some groups that were previously considered as unculturable.
Bacteria Strains
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Catalyzing Microbiome Research
The GMbC collection is providing researchers with the microbes, data, and tools they need to make exciting new discoveries.
Photo Credit: Stool processing in the field. ©Global Microbiome Conservancy / Photo by F. Rondon