ARS	Agricultural Research Service
ATCC	American Type Culture Collection
BBMRI	Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure
BCCM/LMG	Belgian Co-Operated Collection of Microorganisms/Laboratory of Microbiology Ghent University
CABI	Centre for Biosciences and Agriculture International
CBS	Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures
CC	Culture Collection
CCU	Central Coordinating Unit
CCUG	Culture Collection of the University of Gothenburg
CECT	Spanish Type Culture Collection
CIP	Collection of the Institute Pasteur
CMI	Commonwealth Mycological Institute
CORBEL	Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-Science Services
CRBIP	Biological Resource Center of Institut Pasteur
CWE	Collaborative Working Environment
DSMZ	Leibniz Institute DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
EC	European Commission
ECRIN	European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network
ELIXIR	European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information
EMBRC	European Marine Biological Resource Centre
EMbaRC	European Consortium of Microbial Resource Centres
EMBRIC	European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster
ERIC	European Research Infrastructure Consortium
ERINHA	European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents
ESFRI	European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures
EU	European Union
EU-OPENSCREEN	European Infrastructure of Open Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology
IMI	Imperial Mycological Institute
INFRAFRONTIER	European Research Infrastructure for phenotyping and archiving of model mammalian genomes
ISBE	Infrastructure for Systems Biology in Europe
IT	Information Technology
JCM	Japanese Culture Collection
mBRC	microbial Domain Biological Resource Centre
MIRRI	Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure
NCIMB	National Collection of Marine Bacteria
NCTC	National Collection of Type Cultures
NN	National Node
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
R&D	Research and Development
RiTrain	Research Infrastructures Training Programme
SME	Small and Medium Enterprise
TT	Technology Transfer
WDCM	World Data Center of Microorganisms