<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>Common Access to Biological Resources and Information (CABRI) service is a
‘one-stop-shop’ for materials that are collected by a number of European culture
collections that engage themselves in a quality service for the scientific community
by adhering to Quality Guidelines for the management of resources and related
information. It includes collections' catalogues that can be searched in an SRS
implementation. A simple search facility, including a synonym search and a shopping
cart, is also available. Within the European Biological Resource Centres Network
(EBRCN) project, an extension and improvement of the catalogues' information is
under way. This includes adding links to bibliographic databanks and sequence
databases. Revision of ‘in-house’ controlled vocabularies used by data annotators
is under way, in order to improve the setting up of external links, and new links
to biochemical pathways databases are being set up for some of the catalogues.</p>
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