Man page - bp_query_entrez_taxa(1)

Packages contains this manual

Package:  libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl
apt-get install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Manuals in package:
• bp_biofetch_genbank_proxy(1)
• bp_query_entrez_taxa(1)
• bp_download_query_genbank(1)
Documentations in package:
• libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Manual

BP_QUERY_ENTREZ_TAXA

NAME

bp_query_entrez_taxa - query Entrez taxonomy database and print out information

USAGE

bp_query_entrez_taxa "Homo sapiens" "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" Rhizopus Metazoa bp_query_entrez_taxa -gi 28800981 -gi 54301680 -db nucleotide bp_query_entrez_taxa -gi 71836523 -db protein

Provide the genus and species name in quotes, you can also query for
a non-species node like Family or Order

Command-line options:
-v or --verbose : print verbose debugging info
-gi : one or many GI numbers to lookup taxon id for
-db : the sequence db (nucleotide or protein) the GI is for

other arguments are assumed to be species names to lookup in taxonomy db

AUTHOR

Jason Stajich jason-at-bioperl-dot-org