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NCBI Taxonomy

NCBI Taxonomy Database

Curated classification of all organisms in NCBI sequence databases. 2.4M+ taxa from all domains of life.

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Use Cases

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01

Classify sequences by organism

02

Phylogenetic analysis reference

03

Metagenomic community profiling

04

Biodiversity studies data backbone

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NCBI / NLM
License
Open

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Category
Life Sciences

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