metabaR

An R package for the evaluation and improvement of DNA metabarcoding data quality. Evaluation and Improvement of DNA Metabarcoding Data Quality. metabaR is an R package enabling the import, handling and processing of DNA metabarcoding data that have been already processed through bioinformatic pipelines. It provides functions to reveal and filter common molecular artifacts produced during the experimental workflow. This package can be easily used in combination with others R packages commonly used in ecology (vegan, ade4, ape, picante, etc.), and provides flexible graphic systems based on ggplot2 to visualise the data under both ecological and experimental perspectives.