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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📆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...

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🆕 BacDive #GeneSearch 🔎🧬: Find the strains containing a feature of interest❗ You can now use the new BacDive GeneSearch tool to globally search through the annotated genomic features of 19,597 prokaryotic strains 🦠🖥️. 👉 bacdive.dsmz.de/genesearch

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🆕 #BacDive feature update: In addition to #Bakta annotations, the #GenomeBrowser 🧬🖥️ now also visualizes resistance genes annotated with #CARD-RGI 🧫, virulence factors annotated with #VFDB 💉and biosynthetic gene clusters annotated with @antismash.bsky.social 🧪.

Screenshot of the new version of the genome browser

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

❓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.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📢 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

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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...

Example screenshot of the new BacDIve documentation showing explanations on API tests

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🧬 #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.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

✨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.

The first BacDive website in 2012 and the current design.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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.

BacDive is celebrating surpassing the 100,000 strain mark!

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

📆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!

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

❗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!

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

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 BacDive's special collections page

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

📣 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 🧪🖥️🧬

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

🥳 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

A BacDive strain detail page with links to PhageDive.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

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!

A photographed winter scenery with the words BacDive 2023 winter update overlayed.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

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...

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