Database of cytochrome oxidase I (COI) sequences with focus on Actinopterygii identification

These files (sequences and taxonomy) were derived from the BOLD (https://boldsystems.org/) and NCBI-GenBank (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) databases. Actinopterygii sequences were manually curated (filtered) to remove those with an incorrect annotation. The database contains Metazoa sequences from BOLD public release, which were not filtered or revised, but are included because it is a good idea to be able to identify non-target species in metabarcoding data.