## Get taxonomy information

### Description

Print out taxonomy information based of taxonomy names or ID numbers.

This tool uses EMBOSS commands taxget, taxgetdown, taxgetdown, and taxgetspecies to retrieve taxonomy information. The Taxon to be studied is defined using scientific name (e.g. mus musculus), taxonomy id number (e.g 10090). I some cases a common English name can be used too (e.q. mouse). There are four different taxonomy information sets that can be retrieved:

- Get taxon shows the basic information of the given taxon. For example for mouse, the tool by default creates a table containing the taxonomic ID number of the taxon and its parent taxon, level of the taxon in the taxonomic system and the scientific name of the taxon.
- Get parents of the taxon shows all the taxonomic levels from the root of the taxonomic tree to the given taxonomy item.
- Get descendants of the taxon shows all the descendant taxons of the give taxon
- Get all species under taxon collects all the taxonomic species under the given taxon. For example for subfamily Murinae (ID: 10066) this selection produces a table containing the taxonomic information of the 618 species belonging to the subfamily.

By default, this tool produces a table formatted file, but the results can also be produced in EBI, NCBI or TAX formatted text files, that contain more information than the table format.