taxdump

The NCBI taxonomy database, updated on March 7, 2017.

Retrieved from the NCBI FTP server, at:

• ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz

Shrinked so that it only contains taxonomy IDs of the 10,575 sampled genomes and their higher-level taxonomic groups.

• names.dmp
• nodes.dmp

The original version is available from our Globus endpoint: WebOfLife.

We provide shrink_taxdump.py, the script for shrinking taxdump to contain only given taxa and their higher rank taxa, which may be generally useful.