TaxonKit: A practical and efficient NCBI taxonomy toolkit

• Published in: Journal of genetics and genomics Vol. 48; no. 9; pp. 844 - 850
• Main Authors: Shen, Wei, Ren, Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China Elsevier Ltd 20.09.2021
• Subjects: ancestry; Classification - methods; Computational Biology - methods; data collection; genomics; Lineage; National Center for Biotechnology Information; National Library of Medicine (U.S.); NCBI Taxonomy; Software; TaxId; TaxId changelog; TaxonKit; taxonomy; United States; United States; TaxonKit; Lineage; NCBI Taxonomy; TaxId; TaxId changelog

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy is widely applied in biomedical and ecological studies. Typical demands include querying taxonomy identifier (TaxIds) by taxonomy names, querying complete taxonomic lineages by TaxIds, listing descendants of given TaxIds, and others....