This graphic depicts the geographic distribution of GOLD biosamples and organisms. Organism location of isolation is marked in pink while Biosample location of collection is denoted with blue dots. Updates to the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) are reported in the upcoming Database issue of Nucleic Acids Research. (Image from Supratim Mukherjee et al. Nucl. Acids Res. 2016;nar.gkw992)