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Scienfific nomenclature for organisms

Source: R/data.R
organisms.Rd

A dictionary of over 3 million scientific names for plants, animals, fungi, and microbes from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) and UniProt. There are roughly 3.5 million rows, but 3.2 million unique names.

Usage

organisms

Format

A data frame with 3478229 rows and 6 variables.

Source

https://www.itis.gov/downloads/index.html; https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/?query=*

Variables

Variables:

  • name. Text of full scientific name (e.g. Turdus maximus)

  • kingdom_name. Kingdom name for organism

  • source. ITIS or UniProt

  • tsn. Taxonomic Serial Number from ITIS

  • kingdom_tsn. Kingdom Taxonomic Serial Number from ITIS

  • taxon_id. Taxonomic identifier from UniProt