Table 3.
Biobanks in China
| 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 |
aThe list of human-origin biobanks is adopted from Cheng et al. (2013)