Μικροβιολογία / Microbiology

The Bacterial Diversity Database BacDive is the worldwide largest knowledge base of standardized bacterial information. It has been selected as an ELIXIR Core Data Resource as well as a Global Core Biodata Resource. Its mission is to mobilize and make freely available strain-level research data from various sources. Major sources are internal files from culture collections (e.g. CABI, CCUG, CIP, DSMZ, JCM, KCTC) and extensive data manually extracted from species descriptions. Today, BacDive offers 2.6 million data points on 97,334 strains, including 20,060 type strains. Over 1000 data fields cover the topics taxonomy, morphology, physiology, metabolism, origin, biosafety, sequence data, and cultivation. Powerful tools such as the Advanced Search or the Isolation Source Search allow users to easily find strains based on their characteristics, e.g. strains that grow under certain conditions or strains isolated from a specific environment. The RESTful API and a SPARQL endpoint provide expert access to perform large-scale analysis on knowledge provided by BacDive.

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