The Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) is an information system for marine biodiversity for Great Britain and Ireland.MarLIN website
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Marine Biological Association The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) is a learned society with a scientific laboratory that undertakes research in marine biology. The organisation was founded in 1884 and has been based in Plymouth since the Citadel H ...

together with the environmental protection agencies and academic institutions in Britain and Ireland. The MarLIN data access programme has now become the DASSH Marine Data Archive Cantre. DASSH is built on the existing extensive data and dissemination skills of the Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN), the library and information services of the

National Marine Biological Library National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

(NMBL) and the MBA's historical role in marine science.

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{{ocean-stub Biology organisations based in the United Kingdom Information systems Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom Marine biology 1998 introductions