BacDive

@bacdive.bsky.social

BacDive is the worldwide largest database for strain-level bacterial and archaeal information. Our mission is to mobilize, standardize, and integrate research data from diverse sources and make it freely accessible. bacdive.dsmz.de

❓How much data is in BacDive? 👉BacDive currently contains ✨more than 3 million✨ distinct data points, which describe 101,417 prokaryotic strains 🦠 of 22,480 different species 🧫.

An infographic describing how many data points for different categories BacDive contains.

📢 The BacDive summer release is online! What is new: 🔹 Updated information on strains available in the Jena Microbial Resource Collection (JMRC) 🦠 and a new JMRC Special Collection 🔹Recalculated BacteriaNet genome-based predictions 🧬 🖥 🔹Links to Enterobase 🧫 👉 bacdive.dsmz.de/news/41

Screenshot of a strain header showing links to the new JMRC collection and to Enterobase

This year's #BacDive workshop will take place on 24th November 2025, 3 - 5 PM CET online! We are especially looking forward to the opportunity to answer your questions, and hear your feedback and ideas. 🦠🧬. Write to training@bacdive.de to receive the Zoom login details 🖥️.

Agenda: 
1. Introduction
2. The new website design
3. The new genome browser

📆Save the date. 👉 This year's #BacDive workshop will take place on 24th November 2025, 3 - 5 PM CET online! Join us for updates and the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback 🦠🧬. Write to training@bacdive.de to receive the Zoom login details 🖥️.

Join our online workshop on 24 November 2025 at 3 pm CET. Email training@bacdive.de for further information!

Isabel from the BacDive Team will be at the @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social booth at #FEMS2025 🦠 to answer your questions on #DSMZDigitalDiversity 🖥️🧬 databases.

FEMS@femsmicro.org · last yr.

Prepare to be inspired and discover the new FEMS MICRO Milan 2025 day-to-day programme: buff.ly/eyLAber Designed to go beyond traditional presentations, this year’s programme offers interactive opportunities to exchange ideas and spark collaborations. #FEMS2025

A new look for BacDive 🖥️🦠! We are excited to introduce the new BacDive design✨ and now invite all users to try it out. Tell us what you think, we look forward to your feedback! You can find it at 👉 beta.bacdive.dsmz.de or by clicking the red “New Design” button on every BacDive page.

Screenshot of the new BacDive front page.

New genome-based predictions 🧬🖥️ generated using a deepG GenomeNet model were recently added to BacDive 🦠. 33,913 predictions for Gram stain, motility, oxygen tolerance and spore formation with high confidence could be fully integrated into the strain data. 👉 bacdive.dsmz.de/news 👉 deepg.de

Screenshot of the BacDive predictions section. Predictions with over 90% confidence are additionally integrated among experimental data, but marked with an AI icon.

Read the newest @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social newsletter 📄🌱🦠🦋 featuring #BacDive and @dsmzd3.bsky.social!

Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Biodiversität@leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social · last yr.

📰❄️ Here it is, #LeibnizBiodiv’s winter newsletter: bit.ly/3QOEyy1! This edition explores how #digitisation is shaping biodiversity research through insights from our network members. 🌍📊 Featured this time: @dsmz.bsky.social & @zalf.bsky.social! 🌱🦠🚀

❗The 2024 BacDive release is now online❗ New strains from the @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social catalogue, new data provided by DSMZ curators, and information on type strains of newly described species were added to the database. 🦠 BacDive now contains 2,709,516 data points on 99,392 strains!

The BacDive logo with the text:
Total strains: 99,392
Type strains: 21,168

Our colleagues described 28 new bacterial species 🦠and named them all after female microbiologists 👩‍🔬. Read more in the press release linked below 👇 and also check out @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social's social media Christmas calendar introducing the honored scientists and the bacteria named after them.

Leibniz Institute DSMZ@leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social · 2y ago

DSMZ researchers characterized and named 28 actinomycetes with inhibiting effects against other microbes. Honouring the impact of female scientists, they named the newly described bacteria exclusively after #womeninscience. 👉 tinyurl.com/3uhs8ypc #biodiversity #antibiotics #microbes 📷 DSMZ

‼️ Are you free today 2-4 PM CET? It's not too late to join our online workshop 👨‍💻🧪🦠! Just send us an email at ✉️ training@bacdive.de to receive the Zoom login details! @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social #FAIRdata #databases #biology #DSMZDigitalDiversity

DSMZ Digital Diversity@dsmzd3.bsky.social · 2y ago

This year's workshop will take place on 11th November 2024, 2 - 4 PM CET online! Join us for updates on the #DSMZDigitalDiversity infrastructure 🖥️, @bacdive.bsky.social 🦠, #BRENDA 🧪, @lpsn.bsky.social 🌱, #SILVA 🧬, and more. Write to training@bacdive.de to receive the Zoom login details.

New BacDive publication is out 📄 Read about all news and updates of BacDive 🦠, the leading database for prokaryotic strain data! 2.6 million data points on 97,334 strains, a new SPARQL ✨ endpoint, genome-based predictions 🖥️🧬 and more. #DSMZDigitalDiversity #science 🧪 #databases #FAIRdata

BacDive in 2025: the core database for prokaryotic strain data

Abstract. In 2025, the bacterial diversity database BacDive is the leading database for strain-level bacterial and archaeal information. It has been select

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