Microbial data and metadata are scattered throughout the scientific literature, databases and unpublished lab notes and thereby often are difficult to access. Hotspots of (meta)data are internal descriptions of culture collections and initial descriptions of novel taxa in primary literature. By integrating and publishing data in BacDive, these metadata not only become accessible and searchable but are also linked to other open sources like sequences, literature, nomenclature and metabolic data. This makes BacDive to your one-stop shop for the access to microbial metadata.