get_taxonomy: Retrieve taxonomic classification tables from NCBI.

View source: R/get_taxonomy.R

get_taxonomyR Documentation

Retrieve taxonomic classification tables from NCBI.

Description

This function retrieves the taxonomic information of a vector of organism IDs, from the NCBI Taxonomy data base.

Usage

get_taxonomy(uids, save_folder = NULL)

Arguments

uids

vector of organism IDs to retrieve taxonomical information, or a data.table object of class LBCE_dt, generated by get_LBCE().

save_folder

path to folder for saving the results.

Value

A list containing the information for each element of uids

Author(s)

Felipe Campelo (f.campelo@aston.ac.uk)

Examples

uids <- c("6282", # O. volvulus,
          "9606") # H. sapiens
tax <- get_taxonomy(uids)


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