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BOLDconnectR is now on CRAN!

Facilitates retrieval, transformation, and analysis of the data from the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) database at https://boldsystems.org

#DNAbarcoding #Rstats #BOLDsystems #OpenScience

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BOLDconnectR/index.html

BOLD – The Barcode of Life Data Systems

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Rod Page Mar 19, 2023

@dhobern Nice idea, but (a) the DOIs don’t resolve, and (b) on my iPhone the column in the table with the download links is clipped (download button only becomes visible in landscape orientation). Together with the lack of image URLs, it seems a bit half-baked. #dogfooding (can BOLD build BOLD from its own dumps?) would be one way for #BOLDSystems make sure the dumps were maximally useful (that and make sure the DOIs are real and hence citable).

Donald Hobern Mar 6, 2023

The #CentreForBiodiversityGenomics / International Barcode of Life Consortium (#iBOL) / #BOLDSystems is now releasing weekly #Frictionless data packages (tab-delimited) of all public #DnaBarcode data:

http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/datapackages

This may be more convenient than the old download formats, but it's 1.0 GB zipped / 10 GB unzipped.

The packages lack image URLs and taxon ids, which I need, but I plan to change https://bold-au.hobern.net/ to use them if this gets fixed.

#Biodiversity #BIOSCAN

BOLD – The Barcode of Life Data Systems

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