NAME

bp_query_entrez_taxa - query Entrez taxonomy database and print out information

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

Provide the genus and species name in quotes, you can also query for
a non-species node like Family or Order

Command-line options: -v or --verbose : print verbose debugging info -gi : one or many GI numbers to lookup taxon id for -db : the sequence db (nucleotide or protein) the GI is for

other arguments are assumed to be species names to lookup in taxonomy db

AUTHOR

Jason Stajich jason-at-bioperl-dot-org