Map taxonomy identifiers to name

Description

dNameTAXID2NAME provides mappings of taxonomy id to its name.

Details

Mappings were based on data provided by NCBI: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/taxdmp.zip) on 2009 Mar 10

Examples

  x <- dNameTAXID2NAME
  # Get the taxonomy identifiers that are mapped to name.
  mapped <- mappedkeys(x)
  # Convert to a list
  xx <- as.list(x[mapped])      
  if(length(xx) > 0){        
    xx[2:3]
  }