rba_uniprot_taxonomy_path: Traverse UniProt Taxonomic Tree Path

In rbioapi: User-Friendly R Interface to Biologic Web Services' API

Traverse UniProt Taxonomic Tree Path

Description

Using this function you can retrieve nodes that are located in the top or the bottom of your supplied node in UniProt Taxonomy database tree

Usage

rba_uniprot_taxonomy_path(id, direction, depth = 5, ...)

Arguments

id	(numeric) a NCBI taxonomic identifier
direction	direction of the taxonomic path, either "TOP" or "BOTTOM".
depth	(numeric) How many levels should be traversed on the taxonomic tree? (from 1 to 5, default = 5)
...	rbioapi option(s). See rba_options's arguments manual for more information on available options.

Value

a nested list containing the node which are in the path specified by your supplied argument in the UniProt taxonomic tree.

Corresponding API Resources

"GET https://ebi.ac.uk/proteins/api/path"

References

• The UniProt Consortium , UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025, Nucleic Acids Research, 2024;, gkae1010, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1010

• Andrew Nightingale, Ricardo Antunes, Emanuele Alpi, Borisas Bursteinas, Leonardo Gonzales, Wudong Liu, Jie Luo, Guoying Qi, Edd Turner, Maria Martin, The Proteins API: accessing key integrated protein and genome information, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 45, Issue W1, 3 July 2017, Pages W539–W544, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx237

• Proteins API Documentation

• Citations note on UniProt website

See Also

Other "UniProt - Taxonomy": rba_uniprot_taxonomy(), rba_uniprot_taxonomy_lca(), rba_uniprot_taxonomy_lineage(), rba_uniprot_taxonomy_name(), rba_uniprot_taxonomy_relationship()

Examples

rba_uniprot_taxonomy_path(id = 9606, direction = "TOP", depth = 3)


rba_uniprot_taxonomy_path(id = 207598, direction = "BOTTOM", depth = 3)

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