PhageDive is a database for bacteriophages and archaeal viruses. It provides information regarding taxonomy, host strain, phage morphology, life cycle, origin and genomic data.

Prefix
phagedive
License
CC
Links
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Publications
2025 PhageDive: the comprehensive strain database of prokaryotic viral diversity
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in PhageDive should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
3   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from PhageDive should match this regular expression:
^phagedive:\d+$

Example CURIE
phagedive:3
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 1 mapping to an external registry.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100014540
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 3 is used to demonstrate the providers available for PhageDive. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
PhageDive phagedive https://phagedive.dsmz.de/strain/3
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/phagedive:3