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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.

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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 🖥️.
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📆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 🖥️.
September 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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.
May 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Sneak peek 👀🤫

There is a new BacDive layout in the making 🤩. Who is excited to try it out soon? 🖥️🦠
February 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
❗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!
December 17, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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...
September 16, 2024 at 1:11 PM
📣 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 🧪🖥️🧬
September 16, 2024 at 1:10 PM
🥳 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
May 15, 2024 at 11:55 AM
The BacDive 2023 winter update is here, featuring 4,080 new strains and more than 700,000 new data fields filled! 🦠🧫
Read more: bacdive.dsmz.de/news

The BacDive team wishes everyone a happy holiday season and a good start to the new year!
December 21, 2023 at 9:50 AM
BacDive has been added to ELIXIR Core Data Resources! #ELIXIRCDRs are European #lifescience data resources that are important to biological and biomedical research and long-term preservation of biological data.

Check @ELIXIREurope’s news release: elixir-europe.org/news/resourc...
December 14, 2023 at 10:23 AM