Even though microbial ecosystems have an enormous diversity, and microbial communities have great application potential, fundamental and applied microbial research have been focused on a very limited number of isolated single strains. This is because many microorganisms require specific culture conditions or depend on symbiotic interactions for growth and, therefore, are difficult to study. Consequently, the majority of microbial diversity remains uncultured and poorly characterized. This means that we have yet to discover the major fraction of the microbial potential available in nature.
BaseClear now offers culturomics solutions to get access to a greater percentage of microbial potential. Our culturomics solution is a high-scale culture technique with the aim to discover novel microbial strains and their physiological and metabolic properties in samples obtained from, for example, extreme environments. Culturomics will help to mine and discover new antimicrobial agents, enzymes or bioactive compounds.
