Introducing bdclean: a user friendly biodiversity data cleaning pipeline

By

Gueta, Tomer
Barve, Vijay
Nagarajah, Thiloshon
Agrawal, Ashwin
Carmel, Yohay

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-5-22

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

2

Pages

1--2

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25564

 

Abstract

A new R package for biodiversity data cleaning, 'bdclean', was initiated in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2017 and is available on github. Several R packages have great data validation and cleaning functions, but 'bdclean' provides features to manage a complete pipeline for biodiversity data cleaning; from data quality explorations, to cleaning procedures and reporting. Users are able go through the quality control process in a very structured, intuitive, and effective way. A modular approach to data cleaning functionality should make this package extensible for many biodiversity data cleaning needs. Under GSoC 2018, 'bdclean' will go through a comprehensive upgrade. New features will be highlighted in the demonstration.