BOLDconnectR: Retrieve, Transform and Analyze the Barcode of Life Data Systems Data
Sameer Mukund Padhye, Liliana Ballesteros‐Mejia, Timothy Agda, Jireh Agda, Sujeevan Ratnasingham · 2025
Facilitates retrieval, transformation and analysis of the data from the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) database . This package allows both public and private user data to be easily downloaded into the R environment using a variety of inputs such as: IDs (processid, sampleid), BINs, dataset codes, project codes, taxonomy, geography etc. It provides frictionless data conversion into formats compatible with other R-packages and third-party tools, as well as functions for sequence alignment & clustering, biodiversity analysis and spatial mapping.