Taxonomy

Description

The Taxonomy Database is a curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases. This currently represents about 10% of the described species of life on the planet.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Displays the current status of a set of taxonomic nodes or IDs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/TaxIdentifier/tax_identifier.cgi
21 Generates a taxonomic tree for a selected group of organisms. Users can upload a file of taxonomy IDs or names, or they can enter names or IDs directly. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/CommonTree/wwwcmt.cgi
21 Displays the number of taxonomic nodes in the database for a given rank and date of inclusion. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/index.cgi?chapter=STATISTICS&uncultured=hide&unspecified=hide
21 Currently, genetic codes can be set independently for nucleus, mitochondria, plastids and hydrogenosomes. The current settings for each of these on the taxonomic tree can be viewed with this following code list. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/index.cgi?chapter=cgencodes
21 Search the taxonomy tree using partial taxonomic names, common names, wild cards and phonetically similar names. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Root
21 Extinct organisms that are represented with sequence data at GenBank https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/index.cgi?chapter=extinct

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  • biology
  • dataset
  • classification

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