taxgetspecies

Function

Description

taxgetspecies reads in one or more taxons, finds all taxons below in the hierarchy, and writes out any at the species level. 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

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Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

None.

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