loadTaxonomyDb: Return a data.frame that lists the known taxonomy IDs and...

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loadTaxonomyDbR Documentation

Return a data.frame that lists the known taxonomy IDs and their corresponding organisms.

Description

NCBI maintains a collection of unique taxonomy IDs and pairs these with associated genus and species designations. This function returns the set of pre-processed values that we use to check that something is a valid Taxonomy ID (or organism).

Usage

  loadTaxonomyDb()

Value

A data frame with 1 row per genus/species designation and three columns. The 1st column is the taxonomy ID. The second columns is the genus and the third is the species name.

Author(s)

Marc Carlson

Examples

## get the data
taxdb <- loadTaxonomyDb()
tail(taxdb)
## which can then be searched etc.
taxdb[grepl('yoelii', taxdb$species), ]

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