taxid_to_name: Converts NCBI taxonomy ID to scientific name

In compbiomed/MetaScope: Tools and functions for preprocessing 16S and metagenomic sequencing microbiome data

Converts NCBI taxonomy ID to scientific name

Description

Converts NCBI taxonomy ID to scientific name

Usage

taxid_to_name(taxids, NCBI_key = NULL)

Arguments

taxids	List of NCBI taxids to convert to scientific name
NCBI_key	(character) NCBI Entrez API key. optional. See taxize::use_entrez(). Due to the high number of requests made to NCBI, this function will be less prone to errors if you obtain an NCBI key.

Value

Returns a dataframe of blast results for a metascope result

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