NCBI Taxonomy lookup by tax id or scientific name
NCBI Taxonomy lookup by tax id or scientific name - rank, common name, named lineage, genome assembly count, gene counts and child taxa
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Endpoint
GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/species/taxonomy/:taxon
| Category | Everything else |
|---|---|
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Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"pathParams": {
"taxon": "9606"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"POST",
"PUT",
"PATCH",
"DELETE",
"HEAD"
],
"type": "string"
},
"pathParams": {
"properties": {
"taxon": {
"description": "NCBI tax id or scientific name in the path, e.g. 9606, Canis%20lupus",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"taxon"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"pathParams"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"blast_name": {
"description": "Blast name",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"child_taxa_count": {
"description": "Number of child taxa",
"type": "number"
},
"common_name": {
"description": "Common name",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"genes": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"genome_assemblies": {
"description": "Genome assemblies",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"genomic_moltype": {
"description": "Genomic moltype",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"lineage": {
"type": "array"
},
"protein_coding_genes": {
"description": "Protein coding genes",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"rank": {
"description": "Rank, 1 is highest",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"scientific_name": {
"description": "Scientific name",
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"description": "Data source the values come from",
"type": "string"
},
"tax_id": {
"description": "Tax id identifier",
"type": "number"
},
"url": {
"description": "Canonical URL",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"tax_id",
"scientific_name"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "json",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}