BacDive


BacDive is a bacterial metadatabase that provides strain-linked information about bacterial and archaeal biodiversity.

Introduction

BacDive is a resource for different kind of metadata like taxonomy, morphology, physiology, environment and molecular-biology.
The majority of data is manually annotated and curated. With the release in July 2018 BacDive offers information for 63,669 strains.
The database is hosted by the Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH and is part of the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure.

Content and Features

Database

The July 2018 release of the database encompassed over 600 different data fields, divided into the categories "Name and taxonomic classification", "Morphology and physiology", "Culture and growth conditions," "Isolation, sampling and environmental information." "Application and interaction", "Molecular biology" and "Strain availability". The database comprised 712,958 entries, linked to the according strain and reference.
The data are retrieved from internal descriptions of culture collections, expert-compiled compendia on strains and primary scientific literature.

Data access

Data can be accessed either via a GUI or via the RESTful web service. Using the GUI the user can choose between a simple search for searching the main fields like taxonomy or strain ID, or the user can use the advanced search, which enables the search in 130 data fields and gives the opportunity of complex queries by combining several fields. Data can be downloaded in PDF format or in CSV format for larger data sets.
Via the not only BacDive content, but also the taxon reference list can be accessed.

Other databases

For data that are outside the focus of BacDive, links to other databases are provided that deliver strain-associated data:
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