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What organisms are included in the NCBI Taxonomy database?

April 26, 2017database included NCBI organisms taxonomy

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What organisms are included in the NCBI Taxonomy database?

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The purpose of the taxonomy project at NCBI is to build a consistent phylogenetic taxonomy for the sequence databases in the Entrez system. Therefore the Taxonomy database contains only those organisms for which there is at least one DNA or protein sequence. Currently, approximately 40,000 species from 12,000 genera are represented.