www.ibolproject.org

International Barcode Of Life Initiative

Sujeevan RatnasinghamCanadian Centre for DNA Barcoding

Phone Directory & Species Directory

International Barcode of Life

5 Years

$150M

5M specimens

500K species

International Barcode of Life Initiative (iBOL)

DNA Barcode Process

DNA Sequences

Voucher Specimens(Natural History Collections)

Species Names &Taxon Concepts

• Archive – Organize and upload experimental data as it’s generated

• Mine – Analyze submitted data with existing public data

• Collaborate – Share confidentially with others or openly with the community

• Unify - Connect molecular data with specimen data

Centralized Informatics Framework (BOLD)

www.boldsystems.org

Biology Community

submit curat

eupdate

access

Wiki

22

access

submit

website forms or tool

websiteor API

Curators

update

curate

11

GenBank

Access Model

curate

submit curat

eupdate

access

Curators

33

websiteor API

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Dataset BDataset A

Micro-Projects, IP & Data Sharing

Object Stack Dataset

Data Analysis & Visualization

Current - > Future

Data Viewers & EditorsRegistries

Data Collection ToolsSemantic Annotation

Passive/ActiveVisualization

Domain Specific ReportsAnalytical Pipelines

LiteratureAPIs

Deep LinksHeterogeneous Data

340 CPU340 CPU 100 TBSTORAGE

100 TBSTORAGE

Workflow Analytics Integration

Dedicated Infrastructure

1000s CPU

1000s CPU

100s TBSTORAGE100s TB

STORAGE

Cloud based InfrastructureDistributed Globally