Curated European animal data from the BOLD public dataset version 15-Aug-2025
Abstract
Curated using this pipeline: https://github.com/bge-barcoding/bold-library-curation (release v4)result_output.tsv.gz = Processed records in BCDM TSV format with additional columns from ranking.bold.db.gz = Processed records in SQL database format.logs.tar.gz = logs from analysis.family_databases_compressed.tar.gz = manual curation package for family (database file, PDF checklist, PDF & SVG phylogeny).bold_database_statistics.pdf = summary of dataset.
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BOLD Database Statistics Report Database: bold.db Mode: Full Analysis Generated: 2025-10-22 00:50:33
SUMMARY STATISTICS Total records: 2,485,544 Unique species: 87,655 Unique BINs: 95,515 Unique OTUs: 309,654 Records without BIN: 0 CURATION CATEGORIES Auto-curatable species: 20,529 Needs attention: 21,362 Manual intervention: 54,232 PROCESSING PERFORMANCE Total processing time: 6.5 minutes Peak memory usage: 422.8 MB Processing mode: Full dataset Database size: 12.86 GB Summary Statistics
A B C D E F BAGS Grade 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 Number of Species 7918 10267 9058 12031 45174 3207 BAGS Grade Distribution BAGS scoring summary: Grade A = Species has > 10 specimens in 1 BIN Grade B = Species has 3 - 10 specimens in 1 BIN Grade C = Species has > 1 BIN (BIN splitting) Grade D = Species has < 3 specimens in 1 BIN Grade E = BIN with > 1 species (BIN sharing) Grade F = other BAGS Grade Distribution
1234567 Rank 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 Number of Records 1e6 3985 399665 228924 1457844 188004 111999 95123 Rank Distribution Rank Categories Rank Distribution
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Sumscore 0 100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 Number of Records 159 17700 127476 172833 137925 132510 98599 90231 54241 170463 452625 489375 339421 193144 8730 112 Sumscore Distribution (0-16) The sum of all passed criteria, out of a total of 16 criteria assessed for each record. A higher score indicates a record with better specimen data.
Fail 3.8% Pass 96.2% SPECIES_ID Fail 99.8% Pass 0.2% TYPE_SPECIMEN Fail 4.7% Pass 95.3% SEQ_QUALITY Fail 81.3% Pass 18.7% HAS_IMAGE Fail 41.3% Pass 58.7% ID_METHOD Fail 60.9% Pass 39.1% PUBLIC_VOUCHER Fail 27.9% Pass 72.1% INSTITUTION Fail 29.7% Pass 70.3% MUSEUM_ID Criteria Distribution (Pass/Fail) - Page 1
Fail 8.8% Pass 91.2% COUNTRY Fail 41.3% Pass 58.7% REGION Fail 61.3% Pass 38.7% SECTOR Fail 49.7% Pass 50.3% SITE Fail 18.8% Pass 81.2% COORD Fail 27.2% Pass 72.8% COLLECTORS Fail 24.9% Pass 75.1% COLLECTION_DATE Fail 59.6% Pass 40.4% IDENTIFIER Criteria Distribution (Pass/Fail) - Page 2
1234567 Best Rank ABCDEF BAGS Grade 253 5993 690 785 45 4 148 219 6484 1109 1720 205 23 507 174 6378 769 1392 164 2 179 127 4268 1386 3623 1142 126 1359 872 19770 3445 5882 1706 508 12991 54 270 179 780 268 1191 465 Species Distribution: BAGS Grade vs Best Rank 5 10 15 20 Proportion (%) The rank of the best specimen record within each species within each BAGS grade. Top left box indicates the number of species with a BAGS grade A which have a specimen of rank of 1 (= type specimens).
Auto-curatable 21.4% Needs attention 22.2% Manual intervention 56.4% Curation Categories Auto-curatable Needs attention Manual intervention 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 Number of Species 20529 21362 54232 Species by Curation Category Curation Analysis Distribution of species which are possible to auto-curate, probably need attention and require manual intervention. Auto-curatable = BAGS grade A, B or D and specimen ranks 1, 2, or 3 Need attention = BAGS grade A, B or D and specimen ranks >=4 Manual intervention = BAGS grade C or E