GINSA: an accumulator for paired locality and next-generation small ribosomal subunit sequence data

Abstract

Motivation Motivated by the challenges of decentralized genetic data spread across multiple international organizations, GINSA leverages the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) infrastructure to automatically retrieve and link small ribosomal subunit (SSU) sequences with locality information. Results Testing on taxa from major organism groups demonstrates broad applicability across taxonomic levels and dataset sizes. Availability GINSA is a freely accessible Python program under the MIT License and can be installed from PyPI via pip. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics. Project code available at https://github.com/ericodle/GINSA.