BacDive

Our colleagues at #SILVA are looking for a new scientific lead. Check out the job offer!

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 🧪🦠🖥️🧬

Feeling honoured to have made the list 😊

‼️ 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

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

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 What kind of data does this resource provide ? The Bacterial Diversity Database BacDive is the worldwide largest database for standardised bacterial information. Its mission is to mobilise and integra...

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 🚧.

PhageDive: the comprehensive strain database of prokaryotic viral diversity Abstract. Prokaryotic viruses represent the most diverse and abundant biological entities on Earth. So far, data on bacteriophages are not standardized, no

🎉 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 🖥️🧬🧫🧪

Preview of BacDive's special collections page

BacDive's new Special Collections📚 assemble strains that are part of the same research project or collection🧫. This provides users with better access and makes these data sets more visible. You can find all Special Collections on a dedicated new page at
🔗 bacdive.dsmz.de/special-coll...

Preview of the BacDIve SPARQL page

📣 Introducing the new BacDive knowledge graph 🦠💡, which contains more than 16.5 million triples representing so far 26 BacDive entities and can be accessed through a SPARQL ✨ endpoint.

🔗 sparql.dsmz.de/bacdive

#opendata #DSMZDigitalDiversity #databases 🧪🖥️🧬