BP_QUER...EZ_TAXA(1p)

💖 BP_QUER...EZ_TAXA(1p) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to bp_query_entrez_taxa — she's a section 1p manual page (perl user-contributed documentation, iykyk) and she's literally here to serve taxonomy facts ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bp_query_entrez_taxa — query the Entrez taxonomy database and print out information. that's it, that's the whole job, and she ate 💅

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🦋 USAGE 🦋

bp_query_entrez_taxa "Homo sapiens" "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" Rhizopus Metazoa
bp_query_entrez_taxa -gi 28800981 -gi 54301680 -db nucleotide
bp_query_entrez_taxa -gi 71836523 -db protein

okay so the vibe here: you put the genus and species name in quotes 🫶 — that's the whole move. and lowkey you can also query for a non-species node like Family or Order, she's flexible like that, no cap.

Command-line options, bestie, here's the lineup:

• -v or --verbose — print verbose debugging info. she's gonna yap (affectionately) 🗣️
• -gi — one or many GI numbers to look up the taxon id for. yeah, you can stack it, she said "one or many" and she MEANT it 🔥
• -db — the sequence db (either nucleotide or protein) that the GI is for. don't skip this one if you're doing GI things, fr fr

any other arguments? those get assumed to be species names to look up in the taxonomy db. no flags, no ceremony, just names. iconic behavior honestly 👑

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Jason Stajich — jason-at-bioperl-dot-org 💌

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and that's the page, bestie!! this beauty shipped with perl v5.36.0 and the date on her birth certificate is 2023-12-17 🌈 mwah, go look up some taxa, you're gonna slay 🫶💖✨