Informatics Infrastructure
at the start of the Second
Decade of DNA
Barcoding
SUJEEVAN RATNASINGHAM
BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF ONTARIO
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
10+ Years 4M+ Records 0.5M+ Species 100+ Nations
Decade 1 - Capacity Building
Community DatabaseCollaborative Networks Software Tools
Data
Standards
Data Standards
Complete
Locus
Quality Provenance
Building the Library
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
10,000,000
2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
barcodes
Linnean Species
BINs
Spiders
Birds
Lepidoptera
Of North
America
Birds of
Argentina
IUCN
RedList
CITES
Fish
Bees
Amphibians
Mammals
Taxonomic
Thematic
Geographic
Community Benchmarks
Mosquitoes
Collaborative Networks
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
RegisteredUsers(Thousands)
Data Sharing
2005 – 102 users from 30 institutions
1000+ Institutions from 94 countries sharing data on BOLD
AcrossNations
Within Nations
100K+
10K – 100K
1K – 10K
BOLD User Network - 2015
CanadaFranceUSA GermanyCosta Rica
United Kingdom Switzerland
AcrossNations
Within Nations
100K+
10K – 100K
1K – 10K
Finland
BOLD User Network - 2015
KenyaBelgium
Madagascar
Norway
Austria
Sweden
Jordan
Argentina
China Brazil
Spain Mexico Panama
Portugal
Pakistan Egypt South Africa
India
New Zealand
Netherlands
AcrossNations
Within Nations
100K+
10K – 100K
1K – 10K
BOLD User Network - 2015
AcrossNations
Within Nations
100K+
10K – 100K
1K – 10K
BOLD User Network - 2015
66 Other Countries from Every Continent
Testing the Library Depth
BBC Tree of Life, 2014
400K+
163K+
80%
500+
Species
with Full Taxonomy
of the BOLD Library
Orders
Animals
Test Data:
4000 species from
200 orders,
20 per order
Reference
Queries
Testing the Library Depth
0
25
50
75
100
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
TopMatchSimilarity
>98%
>95%
>92%
>90%
Testing the Library Depth
Testing the Library Depth
−0.05 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15
−0.06−0.04−0.020.000.02
PCA1
PC2
Coleoptera
Diptera
Ephemeroptera
Hemiptera
Hymenoptera
Lepidoptera
Plecoptera
Thysanoptera
Trichoptera
−0.05 0.00 0.05 0.10
−0.04−0.020.000.020.04
PC1
PC2
Coleoptera
Diptera
Ephemeroptera
Hemiptera
Hymenoptera
Lepidoptera
Plecoptera
Thysanoptera
Trichoptera
K-mers (k=3)
Ratnasingham, Ma, Hebert, in prep.
Amino Acid Composition
Barcode Index Number (BIN)
Algorithm
Registry
• Tuned to the marker (COX1)
• Fixed parameters for balanced OTU generation
• Uses prior threshold but refines for each group
• Occurrence of DNA Barcode (place and time)
• Aggregation of all associated metadata
• Reusable - works across studies
BOLD:AAF2716
Notioplusia illustratataOraesia Janzen 03 Ctenoplusia sp. ANIC1
0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000
Mammalia
Birds
Insecta
Fish
Araneae
Mollusca
Plants
Fungi
Importance of registering OTUs
Species
Barcode Index Numbers
Unregistered OTUs
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
LATITUDINAL RANGE
Informatics Infrastructure at the start of the Second Decade of DNA Barcoding
Allow anyone, anywhere, to identify any organism
MAIL
Informatics Infrastructure at the start of the Second Decade of DNA Barcoding
LifeScanner Solution Overview
Species
Identification
ID Engine
Sample
Collection
Sequencing
PCR
Prep
Partner
Sequencing
Labs
Informatics Infrastructure at the start of the Second Decade of DNA Barcoding
Informatics Infrastructure at the start of the Second Decade of DNA Barcoding
Moving into decade 2
EmbraceBigData
Impact
Reporting
Analysis
Monitoring
Forecasting
Complexity (Data volume & Dimensionality)
What happened?
Why it happened?
What is happening?
What might happen?
Support for multiple scales
102 103
104
104
Support for NGS based Barcoding
BOLD4
Launch of Beta on Sept 29,2015
Advancing the Automation of
Species Identification
Community Curated Libraries
Tier 3
Tier 2
Tier 1
Purpose generated & reference specimens available
Barcode compliant & consistent
Key species (e.g. Dirty 22, Domesticated & Bush meat)
Curated for consistency in taxonomic assignments
Barcode compliant & consistent
CITES/REDLIST (e.g. Endangered & controlled species)
Mined from BOLD
Limited verification and only to be used as last resort
Disease vectors & invasive species
78%
20%
25%
Community Defined Metadata Extensions
Rougerie R, Smith AM, Fernandez-Triana J, Lopez-Vaamonde C, Ratnasingham S
Hebert PDN. 2011.Molecular analysis of parasitoid linkages (MAPL): gut contents
of adult parasitoid wasps reveal larval host. Mol Ecol 20:179-186.
More Analytical Tools
Community Developed Analytical Tools
Plug-in Framework
6000+ Analytical Packages in CRAN
Analytical Pipelines
Simple Pipeline
BOLD 4 + SAP Lumira
BOLD4 – Some other features
• Checklist Support (synonyms, progress, shopping lists)
• Data portal for core facilities
• Complete record histories
• RESL algorithm on your own datasets
• Storage and analysis of pre-clustered NGS data
Support for Metabarcoding
mBRAVE
Linkages & Partners
Metabarcoding Research And Visualization Environment
Acknowledgements
BOLD Team
Paul Hebert
Dan Janzen & Winnie Hallwachs
Scott Miller
Axel Hausmann
Stefan Kremer
Many others!
Biodiversity Institute Collections Team
Canadian Center for DNA Barcoding Team
BOLD Users

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