---
id: "ncbi_taxon_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ncbi_taxon_id"
---

# NCBI Taxonomy ID (`ncbi_taxon_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `9606` — Homo sapiens
- `10090` — house mouse
- `562` — Escherichia coli

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `ncbitaxon`
- wikidata: `P685`

## Sources

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

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ncbi_taxon_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/ncbi_taxon_id.yaml>