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The International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) continuously records and catalogs specimen information and stores data on the Barcode of Life Database system (BOLD). Advances in DNA analysis have lead to a rapid increase in the volume of data available for researchers involved with the iBOL project to study. This has resulted in modern statistical techniques playing an increasingly important role in the analysis of such large volumes of data. 

BOLD.R was developed to allow users to access data from BOLD directly into R via current APIs maintained by the BOLD system. Users can access their own private data by logging in to BOLD through BOLD.R or they can access public data without the need to login. Data accessed using BOLD.R is stored in R with a consistent internal structure thereby allowing the user to employ the suite of functions provided by BOLD.R in conjunction with existing R packages. Therefore BOLD.R provides the flexibility to use data retrieved from BOLD over a wide range of applications. A future implementation of BOLD will harness the power of cloud computing by allowing users to run scripts on BOLD hardware or on the hardware of an HPC partner.