taxgetdown
Function
Description
taxgetdown reads in one or more taxons, finds all taxons below in tyhe hierarchy, and writes them out. The taxon input may be a literal sequence or read from a database, file, file of taxon names, or even the command-line or the output of another programs. The taxon output can be written to screen, to file, or passed to another program. A wide range of standard taxon formats may be specified for input and output.
Algorithm
The NCBI taxonomy records the parent of each taxon, up to a known top level 1.
Usage
Command line arguments
Input file format
Output file format
Data files
Notes
None.
References
None.
Warnings
None.
Diagnostic Error Messages
None.
Exit status
It always exits with status 0.
Known bugs
None.
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