bold: The Barcode of Life Data System (http://www.barcodinglife.org)

By Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D. N. Hebert. Molecular Ecology Notes, 2007

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The Barcode of Life Data System (bold) is an informatics workbench aiding the acquisition, storage, analysis and publication of DNA barcode records. By assembling molecular, morphological and distributional data, it bridges a traditional bioinformatics chasm. bold is freely available to any researcher with interests in DNA barcoding. By providing specialized services, it aids the assembly of records that meet the standards needed to gain BARCODE designation in the global sequence databases. Because of its web-based delivery and flexible data security model, it is also well positioned to support projects that involve broad research alliances. This paper provides a brief introduction to the key elements of bold, discusses their functional capabilities, and concludes by examining computational resources and future prospects.

Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology

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Comparison of morphological and DNA metabarcoding analyses of diets in exploited marine fishes (2015, methodology): “The second was against a custom COX1 database made in-house from Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) sequences (www.boldsystems.org, Ratnasingham & Hebert 2007).”
NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools (2020, background): “Typically, users submit data sets to GenBank from their accounts in the BOLD system (47, 77) before the associated articles are published.”
Bats as potential suppressors of multiple agricultural pests: A case study from Madagascar (2019, methodology): “from the BOLD database (Ratnasingham and Hebert, 2007) and the EMBL repository (Kulikova et al.”
A comparison of two DNA barcode markers for species discrimination in the red algal family Kallymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Florideophyceae), with a description of Euthora timburtonii sp. nov. (2010, background): “To date, however, there has been a lack of agreement on a standard molecular marker for quick and accurate identification of unknown algal specimens (Saunders 2008) that would enable the comparison of unknown specimens to a diverse group of known species (Ratnasingham and Hebert 2007).”
Non‐specific amplification compromises environmental DNA metabarcoding with COI (2019, background): “In comparison to ribosomal markers, the advantages of COI are high interspecific variability (Ward, 2009), an extensive reference database (BOLD; Barcode of Life Database; Ratnasingham & Hebert, 2007), and due to the protein‐coding constraints of the gene, more straightforward bioinformatic procedur”
RESCRIPt: Reproducible sequence taxonomy reference database management (2020, methodology): “The earliest versioned COI databases were available through a single resource: the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) [34].”
Unveiling cryptic species of the bumblebee subgenus Bombus s. str. worldwide with COI barcodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (2012, methodology): “Data for the specimens processed at Guelph have been uploaded to the BOLD online database (Ratnasingham & Hebert, 2007 ).”