BacDive

BacDive
Content
DescriptionThe Bacterial Diversity Database
Contact
Research centerLeibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH
Primary citationPMID 39470737
Release date2012
Access
Websitehttp://bacdive.dsmz.de/
Web service URLhttps://api.bacdive.dsmz.de/
Sparql endpointhttps://sparql.dsmz.de/bacdive/

BacDive (The Bacterial Diversity Database) is the worldwide largest database for standardized bacterial and archaeal strain-level information.

BacDive is a comprehensive resource containing diverse data on bacterial and archaeal strains, including taxonomy, morphology, physiology, sampling and environmental data and sequence information.[1][2] The database is built on a base of curated data from culture collections. In 2025 BacDive contains information on 99,392 strains, including 21,168 type strains. The database is hosted by the Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH and is part of the integrated DSMZ Digital Diversity infrastructure. BacDive is a member of de.NBI - the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure, as well as ELIXIR. The Global Biodata Coalition designated BacDive a Global Core Biodata Resource (GCBR) in 2022.[3] In 2023, BacDive was additionally named as an ELIXIR Core Data Resource.[4]

  1. ^ Abu-Jamous, Basel; Fa, Rui; Nandi, Asoke K. (2015). Integrative Cluster Analysis in Bioinformatics. John Wiley & Sons. p. 448. ISBN 9781118906552.
  2. ^ Reimer, LC; Sardà Carbasse, J; Koblitz, J; Ebeling, C; Podstawka, A; Overmann, J (January 7, 2022). "BacDive in 2022: the knowledge base for standardized bacterial and archaeal data". Nucleic Acids Research. 50 (Database issue): D741 – D746. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab961. PMC 8728306. PMID 34718743.
  3. ^ "Database from Braunschweig is essential for global bacteria research". dsmz.de. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  4. ^ "ELIXIR announces new Core Data Resources and Recommended Interoperability Resources". elixir-europe.org. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2024.