ncbitaxonomy

This is a Rust crate (i.e. library) for working with a local copy of the NCBI Taxonomy database. The database can be downloaded (either taxdump.zip or taxdump.tar.gz) from the NCBI Taxonomy FTP site.

Documentation for version 0.1.0 is available at crates.io.

taxonomyfilterrefseq

(new in 0.1.1)

A tool to filter a NCBI RefSeq FASTA file so that only the ancestors of a given taxon are retained.

```bash $ taxonomyfilterrefseq --help taxonomyfilterrefseq 0.1.2 Peter van Heusden pvh@sanbi.axc.za Filter NCBI RefSeq FASTA files by taxonomic lineage

USAGE: taxonomyfilterrefseq [OPTIONS] [OUTPUT_FASTA]

FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -t, --tax_prefix String to prepend to names of nodes.dmp and names.dmp

ARGS: FASTA file with RefSeq sequences Directory containing the NCBI taxonomy nodes.dmp and names.dmp files Name of ancestor to use as ancestor filter Output FASTA filename (or stdout if omitted)

```

TODO

• Clean up non-idiomatic code (e.g. the use of the insertnewentry bool)
• Add testing via CI
• Refactor taxonomyfilterrefseq: move most code to library, add tests