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Dicks J, Fazal MA, Oliver K, Grayson NE, Turnbull JD, Bane E, Burnett E, Deheer-Graham A, Holroyd N, Kaushal D, Keane J, Langridge G, Lomax J, McGregor H, Picton S, Quail M, Singh D, Tracey A, Korlach J, Russell JE, Alexander S, Parkhill J. NCTC3000: a century of bacterial strain collecting leads to a rich genomic data resource. Microb Genom 2023; 9. [PMID: 37194944 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) was founded on 1 January 1920 in order to fulfil a recognized need for a centralized repository for bacterial and fungal strains within the UK. It is among the longest-established collections of its kind anywhere in the world and today holds approximately 6000 type and reference bacterial strains - many of medical, scientific and veterinary importance - available to academic, health, food and veterinary institutions worldwide. Recently, a collaboration between NCTC, Pacific Biosciences and the Wellcome Sanger Institute established the NCTC3000 project to long-read sequence and assemble the genomes of up to 3000 NCTC strains. Here, at the beginning of the collection's second century, we introduce the resulting NCTC3000 sequence read datasets, genome assemblies and annotations as a unique, historically and scientifically relevant resource for the benefit of the international bacterial research community.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jo Dicks
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
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- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Karen Oliver
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Nicholas E Grayson
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
- Present address: Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, OX3 9DU, UK
| | - Jake D Turnbull
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Evangeline Bane
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Edward Burnett
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Ana Deheer-Graham
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Nancy Holroyd
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Dorota Kaushal
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Jacqueline Keane
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Gemma Langridge
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
- Present address: Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK
| | - Jane Lomax
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Hannah McGregor
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Steve Picton
- Pacific Biosciences, 1305 O'Brien Drive, Menlo Park, CA, USA
| | - Michael Quail
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Deepak Singh
- Pacific Biosciences, 1305 O'Brien Drive, Menlo Park, CA, USA
| | - Alan Tracey
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Jonas Korlach
- Pacific Biosciences, 1305 O'Brien Drive, Menlo Park, CA, USA
| | - Julie E Russell
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Sarah Alexander
- Culture Collections, UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ, UK
| | - Julian Parkhill
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
- Present address: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK
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