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Table 3 Biobanks in China

From: Publicly-funded biobanks and networks in East Asia

Name of institute

Website

Resources

China Center for Type Culture Collection

www.cctcc.org

Fungi, bacteria, algae, plant and animal cell line, virus

China Germplasm Bank of Wild Species

www.genobank.org

Fungi, seed, plant and animal germplasm, microorganism, DNA

China National GeneBank (CNGB)

www.nationalgenebank.org/en/

Animal, plant, microorganism, human-origin, metagenome data

Animal and plant

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)

www.caas.cn

Livestock and crop germplasm

Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

english.ib.cas.cn

Plant specimen, seed, fossil sample

Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

english.ihb.cas.cn

Aquatic organism, algae culture

China Zebrafish Resource Center

zfish.cn

Zebrafish

National Infrastructure of Fishery Germplasm Resources

zzzy.fishinfo.cn

Specimen, cell, sperm, DNA

Microorganism

Agricultural Culture Collection of China

www.accc.org.cn

Fungi, plant pathogen

China Center for Industrial Culture Collection

www.china-cicc.org

Fungi, bacteria

China Forestry Culture Collection Center

www.cfcc-caf.org.cn

Fungi, bacteria, virus

China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center

www.cgmcc.net

Bacteria

China Pharmaceutical Culture Collection

www.cpcc.ac.cn

Fungi, bacteria, virus

China Veterinary Culture Collection Center

www.cvcc.org.cn

Bacteria

Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS)

www.im.cas.cn

Fungi, virus, strain

Marine Culture Collection of China

www.mccc.org.cn

Fungi, bacteria

National Center for Medical Culture Collections

www.cmccb.org.cn

Bacteria

Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Chinese academy of Sciences

english.whiov.cas.cn

General and pathogenic virus

Human-origin a

Beijing Biobank of Clinical Resource

www.beijingbiobank.cn

Cell line, DNA

China Kadoorie Biobank

www.ckbiobank.org

Blood

China Marrow Donor Program

www.cmdp.com.cn

Blood

Clinical Oncology Institute, Beijing Cancer Hospital

www.bjcancer.org

Tumor tissue, blood

Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, the Second Military Medical University of Chinese PLA

www.ehbh.cn

Tissue, blood, urine, nucleic acid

Eighth Hospital of Wuhan City

www.wh8yy.cn

Tissue, blood, plasma, serum, fluid, nucleic acid, protein

Fudan-Taizhou Institute of Health Sciences

DNA

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Tumour Hopstial

www.gxhospital.com

Tissue, serum, plasma, lymphocyte

Jiangsu Province Hospital

www.jsph.net

Tumor tissue, blood

Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

www.renji.com

Serum, plasma, tissue and DNA

Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

www.zs6y.com

Tissue, serum, plasma, blood cells, blood, feces

Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center

www.sysucc.org.cn

Blood, serum, plasma, cell, nucleic acid

Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province

www.tzhospital.com

Tissue, blood, serum, plasma, cerebrospinal fluid

The Fifth People’s Hospital of Shanghai

www.5thhospital.com

Blood, urine

The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University

www.xydyfy.cn

Tumor tissue, blood

The Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Endemic, Ethnic Disease

Blood

Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital

www.tjmuch.com

Tumor tissue, blood

Tissue Bank of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center

www.shca.org.cn

Tissue

Tongji Hospital

www.tjh.com.cn

Tissue, blood, cell, DNA

West China Hospital

www.cd120.com

Tissue, blood

Wuxi No. 4 People’s Hospital (Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University)

www.wuxihospital.com

Tissue, RNA, serum, plasma, lymphocyte, stem cell and cell line

Zhejiang Cancer Hospital

www.zchospital.com

Tissue, tumor, serum, plasma, white blood cell layer

  1. aThe list of human-origin biobanks is adopted from Cheng et al. (2013)