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Explore our large and diverse curated collections of microbial strains and human samples

We are part of an institute of scientific excellence, with transdisciplinary expertise. We supply high-quality biological materials with associated data across a diversity of collections.

Feel free to browse our catalogues and contact us if you have any requests for biological samples.

Concerning the microbial resources in our catalogue, an ENA link provides the whole genome sequence that we have produced, when available. The indicated BSL category is the one according to the French regulation (arrêté du 18 juillet 1994 fixant la liste des agents biologiques pathogènes).

Human biological resources


Human samples

CHIP is the custodian of collections of human samples for the advancement of research on human health. It provides access to more than 200 000 samples, mostly from general population.

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Microbial biological resources

Bacterial samples

The bacterial collection is one of the oldest microbial collections in the world.

It contains more than 25 000 bacterial strains of more than 5 500 different species.

CIP Catalogue
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Cyanobacterial samples

The collection Pasteur Cultures of Cyanobacteria (PCC) is maintained by the Collection of Cyanobacteria at the Institut Pasteur, Paris. The collection began with 150 isolated strains that R. Y. Stanier, arriving from University of California at Berkeley (U.S.A.), brought to IP in 1971. Since that time, the former curator R. Rippka along with visiting scientists and depositors have isolated, purified and characterized a large number of axenic strains.

Today, there are more than 750 axenic PCC strains from a wide variety of habitats in the collection

PCC Catalog

Fungal samples

Quality Control in progress. We are in the process of requalifying the "UMIP" fungal collection. A polyphasic approach has been used to fully quality control a first set of 50 fungal strains. The rest are following.

Fungal catalogue
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Viral samples

Viral strains are available through the European Virus Archive. The Institut Pasteur Viral strain collections are being operated by the Institute's research units that have been partners of the EVAg consortium and/or are members of the EVA (European Virus Archive) Association.

EVAg

Panels / Featured Collections

  • WDCM Reference strains
  • EUCAST panel
  • Teaching strains
  • Colicin producers
  • Escherichia coli reference collection (ECOR)
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex biodiversity
Panel details
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