Unlimited access to microbiological research data
Update of the freely accessible database BacDive enables access to more than 900,000 metadata
DSMZ
More than 600 data fields available
The possibilities of using BacDive are continuously being expanded, currently scientists can use more than 600 data fields to search for microbiological information. The repertoire includes initial species descriptions and metabolic profiles as well as data on enzymatic activities and antibiotic resistance. In addition, BacDive offers 9,000 Analytical Profile Tests (API) for over 5,000 bacterial strains, the largest publicly available API data collection worldwide.
External Data Integration and Interoperability
In order to provide the scientific community with a comprehensive database, the DSMZ scientists also continuously maintain the microbiological metadata of other European collections in BacDive. With the current update, DSMZ integrated data from more than 19,505 bacterial strains from the Swedish Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG). BacDive thus provides up-to-date information on 80,584 bacteria and archaea. For scientific work with cross-source data sets, the various information sources must be linked as directly as possible via unique identifiers. For example, direct links to the 16S rRNA sequence of a bacterial strain in the database SILVA or to the enzymes involved in metabolic reactions in the database BRENDA have been established. Via links in PubMed, NCBI Taxonomy, NCBI Nucleotide, but also in species descriptions of Wikipedia, users can access the structured metadata in BacDive.
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