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

Learn about #biomonitoring using #environmentalDNA methods with the #STREAM project. Want to learn more or get involved? Register for free here

Webinar: January 25th 5-6 pm EST

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/elb-is-hosting-stream-tickets-514425910747

#UniversityOfGuelph #CentreForBiodiversityGenomics #CBG #metabarcoding #benthos

Starting to process 8838 records from DNA barcoding of #Malaise specimens by CBG (#CentreForBiodiversityGenomics for #InternationalBarcodeOfLifeConsortium). All records are for my garden in Aranda, ACT.

First some caveats. CBG pulls ~200 specimens from each sample, trying to maximise divesity and representativeness. These are then imaged and processed to try to get the COI DNA barcode region. Specimen selection will not be unbiased and the pipeline will be less effective for some groups.

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