CORE-FACILITIES. - ICAMB Institute of Climate Adaptation and Marine Biotechnology

About Core Facilities

Core facilities were established to provide crucial support for R&D as well as commercialisation of ideas activities. Researchers and technical staff under core facilities are responsible in overseeing the management of high-end equipments such as GC-MS, LC-MS, HPLC and NMR as well as three repositories which provide important raw and starting materials for researchers.

Repositories

Marine invertebrates collected by IMB diving team and Terrestrial samples collected by IMB sampling team from mangroves, coastal plants and herbal plants are processed accordingly to produce dried powdered biota samples.

Area of sampling : Terengganu waters

Total Biota : 332 (August 2021)

In-house enhanced fractions that are prepared from powdered biota and small molecules produced either from hit fractions or chemical synthesis are stored systematically in this repository. In addition, we also welcome other researchers from outside IMB to deposit their fractions or small molecules in this repository to allow more researchers to make full use of the precious compounds.

Total Extracts : >270 (Aug 2021)

Total Fraction : >1280 (Aug 2021)

Various micro-organisms isolated from marine and aquatic resources are identified and systematically stored in this repository. Such micro-organisms include bacteria, fungi and microalgae that may have vast potentials in producing valuable bioproducts. Some of these microbes have been systematically characterised biochemically and physiologically. Others are waiting for researchers to unravel their potentials.

Total Microbes : >745 (Aug 2021)

NABTICS

Realising the huge amount of data generated from the use of these three repositories, a Marine Bioinformatics System or NABTICS™ has been internally developed to store and manage these data systematically in order to facilitate researchers who are interested in obtaining more information about the samples and materials stored in our repositories. Among the data currently available in NABTICS™ are the locations where marine invetebrates were collected, amount of biota and enhanced fractions and small molecules available (all of these are systematically bar-coded when stored in repositories), chemical structures of small molecules as well as the biological activities of enhanced fractions and small molecules. Identifications and characteristics of marine microbes are also uploaded into NABTICS™.

No. of Sample : >200 (Up to 2020)

Current Status : OFFLINE