Our mission
To systematically digitize and highlight the biological resources held by JKUAT researchers, facilitating their discovery, access, and exchange to accelerate research, innovation, and scientific collaboration.
JKUAT Bioresources
JKUAT Digital Bioresource Repository
A comprehensive digital repository of microorganisms, herbarium collections, and African indigenous vegetables designed to catalyse research and innovation.
About the repository
JKUAT Digital Bioresource Repository
The JKUAT Digital Bioresource Repository is a comprehensive digital repository of microorganisms, herbarium collections, and African indigenous vegetables, designed to catalyse research and innovation. By converting physical biological collections into accessible, structured knowledge, the repository empowers advances in science, education, and sustainable development. Through enhanced digital access and discovery, it contributes to the conservation and responsible utilization of biodiversity.
Our vision
To serve as a premier digital hub for biological resources, advancing research and education in microbial, plant, and allied biological domains; fostering holistic learning, promoting sustainability, and nurturing intellectual curiosity; and contributing meaningfully to the global scientific community.
What guides us
Objectives
Enhance Academic Research
Provide a diverse, well-documented, and accessible collection of biological resources to support research and innovation in microbiology, biotechnology, plant sciences, environmental sciences, agriculture, and related fields.
Quality and Accessibility
Ensure that biological resources are properly documented, preserved, and digitally accessible to researchers, educators, students, and other authorized users locally and internationally.
Educational Support
Provide resources that facilitate teaching, practical learning, training, and scientific inquiry in biological and related sciences.
Collaborative Research
Foster national and international collaborations among researchers, universities, research institutions, industries, and other stakeholders to promote the sharing and responsible use of biological resources.
Sustainable and Ethical Practices
Promote responsible collection, conservation, documentation, and utilization of biological resources in accordance with relevant national and international standards.
Explore the repository
Research collections
Move from discovery to detail across the biological collections curated by JKUAT researchers.
Microbial strains
Explore documented bacterial, fungal, algal, and other microbial strains held in JKUAT collections.
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African indigenous vegetables
Discover plant profiles, uses, growing conditions, and knowledge around African indigenous vegetables.
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Herbarium collections
Browse preserved specimens with collection details, habitats, storage references, and visual records.
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Services & resources
Explore trusted regulatory, access, transport, and taxonomy resources supporting the responsible use of microbial strains.
Kenya-specific resources
Regulatory, permitting, licensing, and biosafety references for work with biological resources in Kenya.
- Access to Biological Resources and Benefit Sharing Regulations, 2025
- NEMA Access Permit Application System
- NACOSTI Guidelines for Biological Material Transfer Agreements
- NACOSTI Research Licensing Guidelines
- Biosafety Act, 2009 - Cap. 320
- Biosafety (Contained Use) Regulations, 2011
- Biosafety (Import, Export and Transit) Regulations, 2011
Accessing biological resources
International frameworks and culture-collection resources for responsible access, benefit sharing, and deposition.
Transporting biological resources
Good practice and shipping guidance for the safe movement of biological and infectious materials.
Microbial taxonomy and systematics
Authoritative services and communities for identification, nomenclature, classification, and systematics.
- Bergey's International Society for Microbial Systematics
- BISMiS Live YouTube Channel
- Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
- EzBioCloud
- Genome Taxonomy Database
- International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes
- List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature
- The SeqCode Initiative
- The SeqCode Registry