In building a platform for microbial strain resources in China, researchers developed a unified database system, 10 search websites and realized informatization of such resources under the auspices of MOST.

Information of 112,000 microbial strains is available on those 10 websites for retrieval. The project improves the efficiency of sharing, evident in that the sharing of physical resources is up about 30% on average, and the sharing of information increases by 25%.