BacDiveR: Programmatic Interface For The DSMZ' Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

This R package provides a programmatic interface for the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase (Söhngen et al. 2014 & 2016) of the DSMZ (German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures). BacDiveR helps you conduct your microbial research better and faster, by:

• downloading the BacDive datasets you want to investigate off-line, and by

• providing you with a way to document and report your searches and downloads, in a reproducible manner (.R scripts and/or .Rmd files).

It was also built to serve as a demonstration object during TIB's "FAIR Data & Software" workshop.

See TIBHannover.GitHub.io/BacDiveR for more details, /news there for the changelog, and GitHub.com/TIBHannover/BacDiveR for the latest source code.

Changelog for BacDiveR v0.7.0

• Added a vignette section about mass-downloading datasets.
• Instead of stopping with an error if a search returns no results, BacDiveR now only warns about this case and returns an empty list (#93).
• Estimated download times are now reported before all downloads longer than ca. 30 seconds (#84).