Organisms are classified in a hierarchical tree structure.
Our taxonomy database contains every node (taxon) of the tree.
UniProtKB taxonomy data is manually curated: next to manually
verified organism names,
we provide a selection of external links,
organism strains and
viral host information.
Also known as:
- taxonomy,
- NCBI Taxman.,
- NCBI's taxonomic identifier,
- NCBI Taxman