Preservation, Patent Deposit and Biological Material Storage Services

NCIMB provides a patent deposit service under the Budapest Treaty, as well as a range of preservation and storage services to protect your important biological material.

• NCIMB has more than 75 years' experience of preserving and safely storing biological material.

• Since 1982 NCIMB has been recognised around the world as a depository of biological material that is the subject of patent applications.

• We operate a well established quality management system certified to ISO 9001:2015 and are regularly audited by customers, so you can be confident that your material is in safe hands.

• We offer a range of storage options, including a cGMP compliant service, and can tailor a package to your needs.

NCIMB can store:

• bacteria
• plasmids
• DNA
• fungi
• bacteriophage
• plasmids
• plant seeds
• plant cell tissue culture.

See our patent deposit and biological material storage service pages for more information about what we can store for each of these services.

We offer a range of additional services that can be valuable for companies and researchers storing biological material or making patent deposits. For example we can offer:

• Identification of bacteria, moulds and yeasts,
• Whole genome sequencing of bacteria,
• Comparison of sequences to monitor for genetic drift.
• We can also screen sequences for properties such as antimicrobial resistance or virulence factors.