Table 1.

The seven sections of BacDive and the number of entries per section

		Entries per sectiona	Entries per sectiona	increase
Section name	Selected subjects of the section	Release 9/2012	Release 9/2013	2012–13 (%)
Name and taxonomic classification	Domain, phylum, class, family, genus, species and subspecies (if the referring taxonomic ranks are already assigned), available the full scientific name and type strain status	18 157	23 458	29.2
Morphology and physiology	Utilized substrates, known produced compounds, tolerance level towards for several substances/antibiotics, murine types, lysis/decomposition ability	4053	11 521	184.3
Culture and growth conditions	Cultivation media compositions, growth temperatures, pH, salt concentrations, fumigation, lightning constrains	20 634	21 605	4.7
Isolation, sampling and environmental information	Geographic location (continent, country, city and further details, e.g. sea or region, geographic coordinates), environmental conditions at sampling time, utilized enrichment media	15 449	20 769	34.4
Application and interaction	Medical, biotechnical or industrial application, strain-associated patents, risk group classification, biotic relationship, potential host relations	0	14 639	100.0
Molecular biology	Genotype information (connected to sequencing results, secondary and tertiary sequence analysis), e.g. INSDC sequence accession numbers, sequence length, GC-content, applied analysis methods	13 609	14 591	7.2
Strain availability	Depository history, holding biological resource centre, culture collection identifiers	17 856	18 459	3.4
∑ overall entries		89 758	125 042	39.3

^aDistinct combination of strain, reference, data entry.