NCBI Taxonomy

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:database
gptkbp:citation Federhen S. (2012) The NCBI Taxonomy database. Nucleic Acids Res. 40:D136-43.
Schoch CL, et al. (2020) NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020:baaa062.
gptkbp:contains species information
organism classification
taxonomy data
gptkbp:format gptkb:Entrez_system
taxonomy dump files
gptkbp:founded 1991
gptkbp:hasSampleData parent-child relationships
environmental samples
hierarchical tree structure
over 1.5 million species
over 2 million taxa
ranked taxa (species, genus, family, etc.)
synthetic constructs
unranked taxa
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label NCBI Taxonomy
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:license public domain
gptkbp:maintainedBy gptkb:National_Center_for_Biotechnology_Information
gptkbp:provides scientific names
synonyms
hierarchical classification
lineage information
unique taxon identifiers
gptkbp:recognizedBy gptkb:TaxID
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:ITIS
gptkb:WormBase
gptkb:GBIF
gptkb:Catalogue_of_Life
gptkb:SILVA_database
gptkb:UniProt_taxonomy
gptkb:Ensembl
gptkb:LPSN
gptkb:Open_Tree_of_Life
gptkbp:scope gptkb:Viroids
gptkb:Eukaryota
gptkb:Bacteria
all domains of life
Archaea
Viruses
unclassified sequences
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:Entrez_Programming_Utilities_(E-utilities)
gptkbp:updated regularly
gptkbp:usedBy gptkb:RefSeq
gptkb:GenBank
Bioinformatics tools
gptkbp:usedFor comparative genomics
metagenomics
phylogenetic analysis
database cross-referencing
genome projects
sequence annotation
gptkbp:website https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Saprolegnia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5