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Quick test of using genomes package in Bioconductor for taxonomy search
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tax_search.R
# genomes - Genome sequencing project metadata
# URL : http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/genomes.html
library(genomes)
ncbiTaxonomy("human", summary=TRUE)
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# [1] "1 result found"
# taxid name rank division nucl prot struct genome gene
# 1 9606 Homo sapiens species primates 9936177 677498 20041 51 43470
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ncbiTaxonomy(c("Bacillus anthracis", "Yersinia pestis"))
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# [1] "2 results found"
# taxid name rank division nucl prot struct genome gene
# 1 1392 Bacillus anthracis species firmicutes 3694 184450 290 29 29604
# 2 632 Yersinia pestis species enterobacteria 41568 507490 127 55 47410
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