Depositable Subject Matter
IDA's have accepted deposits for biological materials which do not fall within a literal interpretation of "microorganism". The Treaty does not define what is meant by “microorganism.”
The range of materials able to be deposited under the Budapest Treaty includes:
- cells, for example, bacteria, fungi, eucaryotic cell lines, plant spores;
- genetic vectors (such as plasmids or bacteriophage vectors or viruses) containing a gene or DNA fragments;
- organisms used for expression of a gene (making the protein from the DNA).
There are many types of expression systems: bacterial; yeast; viral; plant or animal cell cultures;
- yeast, algae, protozoa, eucaryotic cells, cell lines, hybridomas, viruses, plant tissue cells, spores, and hosts containing materials such as vectors, cell organelles, plasmids, DNA, RNA, genes and chromosomes;
- purified nucleic acids; or
- deposits of materials not readily classifiable as microorganisms, such as “naked” DNA, RNA, or plasmids
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