EMBnet.journal 18.B PostErs 121 MBLabDB: a social database for molecular biodiversity data

The biodiversity is nowadays one of the main scientific area of interest because of its impor-tance for a sustainable development in many technological domains such as biotechnologies as well as for agriculture and human health. For instance, plant genetic resources are the basis of food security and consist of diversity of seeds and planting material of traditional varieties or modern cultivars and crop wild relatives. These resources are used as food, feed for domesticat-ed animals and in recent years for the identifica-tion of new chemical compounds to be used in clinical therapeutic protocols. Biodiversity research communities have to deal with data coming from many different do