NCBI Taxonomy ID

ID ncbi_taxon_id

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Number of a taxon in the Taxonomy database of the US National Center for Biotechnology Information, which names the organisms in the GenBank sequence databases, such as 9606 for Homo sapiens.

Categories: Scientific
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Bioregistry: ncbitaxon
Wikidata: P685
Quality: 80/100 · missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage
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Regular expression

^[1-9][0-9]{0,6}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
9606	Homo sapiens
10090	house mouse
562	Escherichia coli

Sources

doc: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P685

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