ZooTraits:一个R光的应用程序,用于探索动物特征数据,用于生态和进化研究
Thiago Gonçalves-Souza1,2,3, Beatriz Milz4, Nathan J Sanders2
1Institute for Global Change Biology, School for Environment and Sustainability University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan USA.
Ecology and evolution
|May 2, 2024
概括
ZooTraits是一个新的开源应用程序,集中分散的动物特征数据. 它为研究人员提供了一个用户友好的平台,用于探索,比较和下载各种动物特征信息,用于生态和进化研究.
科学领域:
- 生态学和进化生物学
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 动物学 动物学
背景情况:
- 动物特征数据在众多数据集中分散,阻碍了比较生态和进化研究.
- 与植物特征数据库 (例如,TRY) 不同,动物特征的集中资源一直缺乏.
- 这种碎片化使得对理解生物多样性模式和过程至关重要的特征信息的合成变得复杂.
研究的目的:
- 推出ZooTraits,这是一款新的Shiny应用程序,旨在整合和促进对动物特征数据的访问.
- 为研究人员提供一个用户友好的开源平台,用于探索,比较和下载动物特征信息.
- 作为特征数据的中心中心,支持基于特征的生态和进化研究的进步.
主要方法:
- 开发一个Shiny应用程序,集成来自Open Trait Network,AnimalTraits数据库和编译文献数据的数据.
- 实现了用户友好的功能:ExploreTrait,FeedTrait和GetTrait用于数据可视化,比较和下载.
- 属性记录的汇总,涵盖不同分类群体,生态系统和地理区域的数千种物种.
主要成果:
- 动物园特征集中了来自多个来源的特征数据,通过开放特征网络提供了对23394种物种的3954个特征记录的访问权限.
- 该应用程序从AnimalTraits数据库中提供大约2000种物种的特征数据.
- 它总结了各种动物分类,生态系统和区域的特征信息,并提供了数据上传功能,以促进数据库扩展.
结论:
- ZooTraits解决了对动物特征数据的集中,可访问的平台的关键需求.
- 该应用程序的功能简化了数据探索,比较和下载,大大帮助基于特征的研究.
- 通过促进数据共享和集中,ZooTraits促进了整个动物王国的生态和进化研究的进展.
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