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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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de.NBI & ELIXIR Germany @denbi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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

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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 · 18/02/2026

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....

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🗝️🧫 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 🎉.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📣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

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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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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

📣 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 🧫🧪

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Daniel Podlesny @podlesny.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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

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Daniel Podlesny @podlesny.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

📣 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

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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

Hope to see you all there!

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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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Feargal Ryan @feargalr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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

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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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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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! ✨

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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

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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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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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

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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 · 13/12/2024

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.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Great list! Could we be added?

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Great list! We would love to be added.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Feeling honoured to have made the list 😊

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

‼️ 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

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

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

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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

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

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.

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

⚠️ 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 🚧.

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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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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

🌿 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...

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

📅 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 🧬.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

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

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