Taxon-class: Taxon-classes
In gschofl/ncbi: Retrieve data from NCBI.

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“Taxon” is a (virtual) class that provides a container for records retrieved from the NCBI Taxonomy database. It is extended by the classes “Taxon_minimal” and “Lineage” with three slots TaxId, ScientificName, and Rank, and by class “Taxon_full”, with the additional slots ParentTaxId, OtherName, Authority, TypeMaterial, and Lineage.

  new_Taxon_minimal(...)

  new_Lineage(...)

  new_Taxon_full(...)

TaxId:: The Taxonomy Identifier, a stable unique identifier for each taxon in the NCBI Taxonomy database.
ScientificName:: The unique scientific name of the taxon.
Rank:: The taxonomic rank of the taxon.
ParentTaxId:: The Taxonomy Identifier of the parental taxon.
OtherName:: A named character vector holding synonyms or GenBankSynonyms.
Authority:: Authority
TypeMaterial:: Type material
Lineage:: Lineage