BacDive

❓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 🧫.

Great to be in Cambridge this week together with @brenda-enzymes.bsky.social, @arb-silva.bsky.social, #LPSN, and our #DSMZ colleagues from the Science Policy & Internationalization department to hear and talk about biological data 🦠📊.

📆Save the date. This year's BacDive workshop will take place on 17 November 2026, 3 PM CET online! Join us for updates on the upcoming new API and on genomic data in BacDive 🦠🧬. We look forward to hearing your thoughts, ideas, and feedback! Register here ▶️ terminplaner.dfn.de/public/booki...

📢 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

Don't forget to visit the @denbi.bsky.social posters at the #ELIXIR26 poster session

Would you like to know how to best search BacDive for strains 🦠, browse through genomes 🧬, read API test results 🧪, or use the web services 🖥️? Check out the new BacDive documentation 📖✨ 🔗 hub.dsmz.de/wiki/bacdive...

📣 Workshop announcement: This year's #SILVA 🧬 online workshop will take place on 🗓️ 11th December, at 3pm CET. The #SILVA team will inform about the upcoming release, the new website design 🖥️, and more! Write to contact@arb-silva.de to receive the Zoom login details #science #FAIRdata 🧫🧪

Most microbial diversity is uncultured. metaTraits bridges the gap by combining culture-based trait data (@bacdive.bsky.social, @bvbrc.bsky.social, JGI/GOLD/IMG) with predictions for MAGs and genomes (SPIRE, proGenomes). All trait summaries come with provenance and links to their original data. 4/8

We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8

📣 Open position: We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️ You will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the SILVA taxonomy🌳and more! 👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/... Read and share ‼️ #sciencejobs 🦠🧪 #career #taxonomy

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 🖥️.

Just about to push a big update to our R package TaxSEA where we've spent a lot of time collating data from the BacDive database so it's readily usable in a metagenomics analysis. See example below from the HMP IBD data. #metagenomics #bioinformatics #microbiome #microbiota

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

🤩 Now published: 📄 Julia Koblitz's paper on making genome-based phenotypic trait predictions based on high-quality BacDive data and integrating predicted data into the database 🧬🖥️🦠. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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.

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

We had a great @vaam-microbes.bsky.social #VAAM2025 🦠 in Bochum! We loved getting to talk to so many of you about our databases. 🤩💬 See you next year! ✨

Just two weeks until #VAAM2025 🦠🤩 Meet us at the @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social booth 👋 or at the following posters and talks 👩‍🏫: Poster P-CM-103 (Monday): #BacDive Poster P-MDE-143 (Monday): #LPSN Poster P-OT-346 (Tuesday): #SILVA Presentation (Monday lunch symposium): #StrainInfo

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

Sneak peek 👀🤫 There is a new BacDive layout in the making 🤩. Who is excited to try it out soon? 🖥️🦠

BacDive in 2025: the core database for prokaryotic strain data The new @bacdive.bsky.social 🦠 publication reports on recent updates in content and functionalities. 👉 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

🎄The DSMZ Digital Diversity team wishes you a happy holiday season and a very good start to 2025! ✨

❗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!

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.

Welcome to Bluesky @brenda-enzymes.bsky.social #DSMZDigitalDiversity 🧪🦠🖥️🧬

‼️ 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

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

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.

BacDive🦠 is the featured Global Core Biodata Resource of the week❗ Read more in the Global Biodata Coalition's article. #DSMZDigitalDiversity #science #FAIRdata #databases

⚠️ Due to scheduled maintenance work on the DSMZ network infrastructure, our databases 🖥️(including @bacdive.bsky.social 🦠, @lpsn.bsky.social 🌱, BRENDA ⚗️ and SILVA 🧬) may experience interruptions and outages on 26th and 27th October 🚧.

🎉 Clara Rolland's paper introducing our newest database was just published in #NucleicAcidsResearch 🤩 PhageDive: the comprehensive strain database of prokaryotic viral diversity 👉 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social #phagesky #FAIRdata 🖥️🧬🧫🧪

🌿 Save the date! 👩‍🏫On Tuesday, 17th September 11 am, Julia Koblitz, Head of Team Data Integration will present our Digital Diversity Hub 🖥️ during the #NFDI4Biodiversity BiodiversiTea 🌱🦠🐀 lecture (in German 🇩🇪)! Further information and registration 🖊️: www.nfdi4biodiversity.org/de/events/bi...

📅 Save the date! 📌This year's #DSMZDigitalDiversity online workshop will take place on 11th November at 2pm CET. It will feature an introduction to the DSMZDigitalDiversity Hub 🖥️ and breakout sessions with the teams of BacDive 🦠 (including StrainInfo and MediaDive), BRENDA ⚗️, LPSN and SILVA 🧬.

We had a great time at #ELIXIR24. It was lovely to meet everyone and we are looking forward to next time!

We are happy to welcome our expert committee to @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social for their first meeting and to have the opportunity to present our databases and plans for the future! We are looking forward to lots of fruitful discussions and feedback! #DSMZDigitalDiversity #databases

🥳 BacDive mini update completed! 🧫 BacDive pages now contain links to the new #PhageDive database for prokaryotic viruses. 🧬New 16S sequences were added to thousands of BacDive strains and small bugs were fixed to improve the BacDive user experience. #DSMZDigitalDiversity

📣 #LPSN and #SILVA have recently joined #BRENDA and @bacdive.bsky.social on the list of Global Core Biodata Resources 🖥️🧬🦠. Read about it here: www.dsmz.de/press/press-... #DSMZDigitalDiversity #biology #openscience #FAIRdata