We are happy to announce that the traditional Christmas BacDive release is now online.
This update features the integration of a large set of phenotypic and metabolic data generously shared by the Biological Resource Center (CRBIP) of the Institut Pasteur. BacDive now provides data on 97,334 strains, 4080 of which were newly added. The number of total filled data fields grew by almost 30% to 2,675,988 entries.
A careful curation of the genome sequences listed in BacDive resulted in the removal of links to low-quality assemblies and the consolidation of listings of single contigs of WGS projects in assembly accession. The number of sequence entries therefore decreased, while the quality of displayed genomes increased.
BacDive strain pages now contain links to the newly revived StrainInfo database for strain identity information and the resolution of strain identifiers.
Genome-based predictions from the Diaspora project can now be accessed using the API using an optional parameter.
We want to thank all of our users who have sent in suggestions and corrections over the last year, many of which were accepted and become visible with this release.
| BacDive Section | Release 2021 | Release 2022 | Release 2023 | 2022-2023 increase |
| Name and taxonomic classification* | 132,839 | 137,332 | 154,525 | 11% |
| Morphology* | 42,756 | 62,766 | 74,683 | 16% |
| Culture and growth conditions* | 157,622 | 159,833 | 193,351 | 17% |
| Physiology and metabolism* | 1,063,988 | 1,112,931 | 1,691,087 | 34% |
| Isolation, sampling and environmental information* | 156,065 | 175,521 | 187,071 | 6% |
| Application and interaction* | 22,077 | 23,221 | 36,338 | 36% |
| Sequence data* | 106,070 | 122,022 | 109,572 | -11% |
| References* | 68,145 | 128,540 | 229,361 | 44% |
| overall entries* | 1,749,562 | 1,922,166 | 2,675,988 | 28% |
BacDive is ELIXIR Core Data Resource
We are proud that after an extensive review and evaluation process, BacDive has been selected as a new ELIXIR Core Data Resource, joining a list of now 32 renowned European life science data resources that are important to biological and biomedical research and long-term preservation of biological data.
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