ACOI offers laboratories and technological platforms, including access to cultivation-controlled systems and a collection of more than 4000 microalgae and cyanobacteria strains. Equipment available includes DIC, optical microscopes coupled with digital photographic cameras, PCR instrumentation, uHPLCDAD and uHPLC-RI, GC-FID and GC-BID, spectrophotometers, freeze-dryers, molecular tools, and structural and chemical analysis.