The DSMZ microbial collections contain over 20, 000 cultures representing some 6,900 species and 1,400 genera (
Archaea, Bacteria, plasmids, phages, yeasts, fungi).
About 1000
new strains are deposited in the public collection each year. The
ESA microbial strain collection is now accessible at DSMZ.
The DSMZ is expanding the phage collection and welcomes new phage donations (
Phage Call Project).
Other services include for example identification and characterization, long term preservation, training courses for microbiological methods, and as a free service a full
list of all validly published names of prokaryotes.
The DSMZ participates in several national and international
projects like the GEBA-Project (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) together with Joint Genome Institute and the DNA Bank Network project which is currently funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).
Publications emerging from projects and taxonomic research, e.g. description of new taxa.
