At the heart of our company is the UK's National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria - a fantastic collection of environmentally important and industrially useful bacteria.

The collection includes strains, deposited by researchers around the world, that have been isolated from a much wider range of environments and substances than our name might suggest. It's a genetic resource for the 21st century.

We: identify, compare, sequence, characterise and monitor microorganisms; undertake ecotoxicity testing; offer a suite of effluent tests and provide a fuel testing service.

Whether our customer is a pharmaceutical company that requires environmental isolate identification, a probiotics manufacturer screening candidate strains, or an oil company monitoring microbes that influence corrosion, our analytical services help them achieve their goals.

NCIMB is a depository for biological material that is the subject of patent applications, and offers trusted storage services to organisations that need an offsite backup of important material - from storage of a few vials for a university project, to GMP compliant storage of production strains.

We can store bacteria, plasmids, bacteriophage, DNA, protozoa, fungi, algae, orthodox plant seeds and plant cell tissue cultures.