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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 29d

Hope to see you all there!

BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 29d

@nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social @denbi.bsky.social @elixir-europe.org @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · 29d

📆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 [email protected] 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 · Aug 7

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 · Jun 20

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

FEMS @femsmicro.org · Apr 28

Prepare to be inspired and discover the new FEMS MICRO Milan 2025 day-to-day programme: buff.ly/eyLAber

Designed to go beyond traditional presentations, this year’s programme offers interactive opportunities to exchange ideas and spark collaborations. #FEMS2025

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · Jun 10

🤩 Now published:

📄 Julia Koblitz's paper on making genome-based phenotypic trait predictions based on high-quality BacDive data and integrating predicted data into the database 🧬🖥️🦠.

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets - Communications Biology

Machine learning models link bacterial genomic features to key phenotypic traits using curated data from BacDive, enabling high-confidence predictions and expanding phenotype annotations across thousa...

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · May 13

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 · Apr 9

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 · Mar 27

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 · Mar 10

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 · Mar 3

Read the newest @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social newsletter 📄🌱🦠🦋 featuring #BacDive and @dsmzd3.bsky.social!

Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Biodiversität @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social · Feb 21

📰❄️ Here it is, #LeibnizBiodiv’s winter newsletter: bit.ly/3QOEyy1! This edition explores how #digitisation is shaping biodiversity research through insights from our network members. 🌍📊 Featured this time: @dsmz.bsky.social & @zalf.bsky.social! 🌱🦠🚀

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · Feb 14

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 · Jan 8

BacDive in 2025: the core database for prokaryotic strain data

The new @bacdive.bsky.social 🦠 publication reports on recent updates in content and functionalities.

👉 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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 · Dec 19

🎄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 · Dec 17

❗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 · Dec 13

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.

Leibniz Institute DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social · Nov 27

DSMZ researchers characterized and named 28 actinomycetes with inhibiting effects against other microbes. Honouring the impact of female scientists, they named the newly described bacteria exclusively after #womeninscience.
👉 tinyurl.com/3uhs8ypc

#biodiversity #antibiotics #microbes
📷 DSMZ

New antibiotic producers described: Old DSMZ treasures with new potential

Researchers name newly described bacteria exclusively after female scientists

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · Nov 18

Great list! Could we be added?

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · Nov 18

Great list! We would love to be added.

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · Nov 15

Welcome to Bluesky @brenda-enzymes.bsky.social

#DSMZDigitalDiversity 🧪🦠🖥️🧬

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · Nov 14

Feeling honoured to have made the list 😊

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DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · Nov 11

‼️ Are you free today 2-4 PM CET? It's not too late to join our online workshop 👨‍💻🧪🦠!

Just send us an email at ✉️ [email protected] to receive the Zoom login details!

@nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social #FAIRdata #databases #biology #DSMZDigitalDiversity

DSMZ Digital Diversity @dsmzd3.bsky.social · Oct 30

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 [email protected] to receive the Zoom login details.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · Nov 4

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

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 · Oct 30

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 [email protected] to receive the Zoom login details.

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BacDive @bacdive.bsky.social · Oct 28

BacDive🦠 is the featured Global Core Biodata Resource of the week❗ Read more in the Global Biodata Coalition's article.

#DSMZDigitalDiversity #science #FAIRdata #databases

BacDive

What kind of data does this resource provide ? The Bacterial Diversity Database BacDive is the worldwide largest database for standardised bacterial information. Its mission is to mobilise and integra...

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