β Maintenance: A BIGSdb-Pasteur maintenance is ongoing until Saturday, July 05th. All services are offline until late in the evening (Central European Time). During this period, the server and API are unavailable. Please note that job submission is not available and all unfinished jobs have been killed. Sorry for any inconvenience. If any questions, contact us
Data access policy note: since January 1st, 2025, registration and authentication are mandatory to access all data curated after this date, either via the web interface or via the application programming interface (API authentication help link). Please contact us if you have any questions.
Register a user account
Create a site-wide account
To set up a new user account please follow the link below:
Register for a site-wide account
Ensure that you enter a valid E-mail address, as account validation details will be sent to this address.
Please fill your account info using :
- Proper nouns first letter capitalization
- Full affiliation details (i.e. department, institution, country) with no acronyms

After registation, a random password will be generated and sent to the provided E-mail address. You must log in to the site within 60 minutes using this password. You will then be required to change this password and log in again.
Register to specific databases
The site-wide accounts allow you to log in to databases across the site for the purposes of data submission or for accessing protected resources. Once you are logged in, you will need to register your account with a database if you wish to submit data to it via the automated submission system; or you wish to customise its interface or output; or if it is password-protected.
To register for specific databases please follow the link below:
Site-wide account settings page
You will see a list of databases that can be auto-registered, select the database(s) in the Auto-registrations tab and click 'Register'.
