taxonkit

README

TaxonKit - Cross-platform and Efficient NCBI Taxonomy Toolkit

Documents: http://bioinf.shenwei.me/taxonkit (Usage, Tutorial)

Source code: https://github.com/shenwei356/taxonkit

Latest version:

Subcommands

• list list taxon tree of given taxon IDs

Installation

Go to Download Page for more download options and changelogs.

TaxonKit is implemented in Go programming language, executable binary files for most popular operating systems are freely available in release page.

Just download compressed executable file of your operating system, and uncompress it with tar -zxvf *.tar.gz command or other tools. And then:

1. For Linux-like systems

   1. If you have root privilege simply copy it to /usr/local/bin:

       sudo cp taxonkit /usr/local/bin/
      

   2. Or add the directory of the executable file to environment variable PATH:

       echo export PATH=\$PATH:/PATH/OF/taxonkit >> ~/.bashrc
      

2. For windows, just copy taxonkit.exe to C:\WINDOWS\system32.

For Go developer, just one command:

go get -u github.com/shenwei356/taxonkit/taxonkit

Contact

Email me for any problem when using taxonkit. shenwei356(at)gmail.com

Create an issue to report bugs, propose new functions or ask for help.

License

MIT License