LEGE-CC is member of World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC), European Culture Collections' Organisation (ECCO) and it is also part of the Research Infrastructure EMBRC.PT. As other biological resource centres worldwide, LEGE-CC seeks to provide several services (e.g. provision of starter cultures for diverse purposes, isolation and identification of strains, cyanotoxins analysis, cryopreservation, training courses, etc.). Several studies, most of them from BBE group’s own research, have shown the potential or the effective capacity of different LEGE strains to produce a myriad of chemical compounds, including toxins or newly discovered bioactive molecules with potential biotechnological application.