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Retrieve NCBI Taxonomy IDs for a list of taxon names

Source: R/get_NCBI_sets.R
get_ncbi_taxon_ids.Rd

This function takes a vector of taxon names and returns a vector of NCBI taxonomy IDs by querying the NCBI Entrez API.

Usage

get_ncbi_taxon_ids(taxon_names)

Arguments

taxon_names

A character vector of taxon names

Value

A character vector of NCBI taxonomy IDs corresponding to the input taxon names

Examples

taxon_names <- c("Escherichia coli", "Staphylococcus aureus")
taxon_ids <- get_ncbi_taxon_ids(taxon_names)