BacDive

A new version of the BacDive🦠 API Python🐍 client, which uses the new endpoints and does not require username and password is already available at pypi.org/project/bacd....

🗝️🧫 Additionally, from February 2026, registration through the DSMZ Keycloak server is not required anymore to use the BacDive API. Our API is now freely accessible 📂 - no sign-up, no account needed 🎉.

📣BacDive API Update

Version 2 for the BacDive API endpoints ⌨️ has been introduced due to changes in the structure of the Genome Sequences data.

‼️We recommend migrating as new data added in latest, and upcoming, releases is only available through the BacDive API v2!

👉 api.bacdive.dsmz.de

The new genome browser tool.

🧬 #BacDive is also taking a long-awaited leap into the world of genomics with the debut of a genome browser 🔎🖥️.

For the first time, BacDive now displays genomic information. The genome browser feature lists and visualizes #Bakta annotations of #INSDC genome assemblies.

The first BacDive website in 2012 and the current design.

✨With this update, #BacDive additionally receives a new look 🖥️.

The new website, which had been in beta test phase for the last six months, adopts the shared modern design of @dsmzd3.bsky.social, which offers users an intuitive navigation and more clearly structured strain detail pages.

BacDive is celebrating surpassing the 100,000 strain mark!

The 2025 #BacDive 🦠 release is now online.

🎉🥳 The database now contains information on more than 100,000 strains 🧫.

For this update, new data provided by @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social and information on type strains of newly described species from the #LPSN database were added.

This year's #SILVA 🧬 online workshop will take place on 🗓️ 11th December, at 3pm CET.

📣 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 🧬🖥️

📣 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

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

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 🖥️.

Hope to see you all there!

@nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social @denbi.bsky.social @elixir-europe.org @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social

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

📆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 🖥️.

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.

Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets - Communications Biology Machine learning models link bacterial genomic features to key phenotypic traits using curated data from BacDive, enabling high-confidence predictions and expanding phenotype annotations across thousa...

🤩 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...

Screenshot of the new BacDive front page.

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

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

Isabel with the BacDive poster

Martinique with the SILVA poster

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! ✨

VAAM promotional picture

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!

the new strain page

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

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/...

Picture showing the DSMZ Digital Diversity Logo with the colors changed to make it look like Christmas tree.

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

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

❗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.

Great list! Could we be added?

Great list! We would love to be added.

Welcome to Bluesky @brenda-enzymes.bsky.social

#DSMZDigitalDiversity 🧪🦠🖥️🧬