The ASV Registry: a place for ASVs to be

By

Bräunig, Christian
Meid, Sandra
Quast, Björn
Rduch, Vera
Grobe, Peter

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-10-4

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

8

Pages

1--18

Subjects

Amplicon sequence variant , barcode reference databases , biodiversity monitoring , data storage , DNA metabarcoding , operational taxonomic unit , taxon annotation

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.8.124564

 

Abstract

Despite the effectiveness of DNA metabarcoding for gaining insights into biodiversity and environmental species composition, a centralised management and storage option including easy accessibility of already-published data is lacking. Since most data are published as supplementary material or in private repositories, DNA metabarcoding has a huge untapped potential to be used for analyses across multiple taxa, sample locations or multiple research projects. We developed a platform to register, manage and identify amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) or zero-radius OTUs (ZOTUs), respectively, against several barcode reference datasets. Moreover, ASV tables can be uploaded, managed, versioned and published with DOIs thus contributing to the full research Data Life Cycle.