Package 'GenomeInfoDbData'

Title: Species and taxonomy ID look up tables used by GenomeInfoDb
Description: Files for mapping between NCBI taxonomy ID and species. Used by functions in the GenomeInfoDb package.
Authors: Bioconductor Core Team
Maintainer: Bioconductor Maintainer <[email protected]>
License: Artistic-2.0
Version: 1.2.13
Built: 2024-11-05 23:12:55 UTC
Source: https://github.com/Bioconductor/GenomeInfoDbData

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Species and taxonomy ID look up tables

Description

This package contains one mapping object:

  • specData: A data frame with columns ‘tax_id’, ‘genus’, and ‘species’. Used to retrieve taxonomy ID by species and returns list of available species.

Usage

data(specData)

Details

Scripts to generate these files are in GenomeInfoDbData/inst/scripts. All originate from the taxdummp download at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz.

Author(s)

Bioconductor Core Team

Examples

data(specData)
sapply(specData, class)   #      tax_id       genus     species
			  #   "integer"    "factor" "character"

subset(specData, c(genus=="Homo" &  species=="sapiens"))$tax_id # [1] 9606