Krah Franz-Sebastian, Bates Scott T, Miller Andrew N
Bavarian Forest National Park, Grafenau, Germany Bavarian Forest National Park Grafenau Germany.
Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany Technical University of Munich Freising Germany.
Biodivers Data J. 2019 Jan 14(7):e31511. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e31511. eCollection 2019.
The understanding of the biodiversity and biogeographical distribution of fungi is still limited. The small number of online databases and the large effort required to access existing data have prevented their use in research articles. The Mycology Collections Portal was established in 2012 to help alleviate these issues and currently serves data online for over 4.3 million fungal records. However, the current process for accessing the data through the web interface is manual, therefore slow, and precludes the extensive use of the existing datasets. Here we introduce the software package rMyCoPortal, which allows users rapid, automated access to the data. rMyCoPortal makes data readily available for further computations and analyses in the open source statistical programming environment R. We will demonstrate the core functions of the package, and how rMyCoPortal can be employed to obtain fungal data that can be used to address basic research questions. rMyCoPortal is a free and open-source R package, available via GitHub.
目前，人们对真菌生物多样性和生物地理分布的了解仍然有限。在线数据库数量较少，且获取现有数据需要付出巨大努力，这使得它们难以应用于研究文章中。真菌学收藏门户于2012年建立，旨在帮助缓解这些问题，目前在线提供超过430万条真菌记录的数据服务。然而，当前通过网络界面访问数据的过程是手动的，因此速度较慢，并且阻碍了现有数据集的广泛使用。在这里，我们介绍软件包rMyCoPortal，它允许用户快速、自动地访问数据。rMyCoPortal使数据能够在开源统计编程环境R中方便地用于进一步的计算和分析。我们将演示该软件包的核心功能，以及如何使用rMyCoPortal获取可用于解决基础研究问题的真菌数据。rMyCoPortal是一个免费的开源R软件包，可通过GitHub获取。
