The taxonomy contains the relationships between all living forms for which nucleic acid or protein sequence have been determined.

Prefix
ncbitaxon
Preferred Prefix
NCBITaxon
Alternative Prefixes
NCBI Taxonomy taxonomy NCBITaxon taxid taxon TAX NCBI_taxid TaxonomyID NCBITaxonomyID NCBI_Taxon_ID uniprot.taxonomy
Keywords
classification dna life science obo ontology phylogenetics protein structure taxonomic classification taxonomy
Version
2024-07-03
License
CC0-1.0
Links
Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON
Contact
Conrad L Schoch   0000-0003-1839-5322   fbastian
Identifier Space Owner
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in NCBI Taxonomy should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
2170610   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from NCBI Taxonomy should match this regular expression:
^NCBITaxon:\d+$

Example CURIE
NCBITaxon:2170610
Publications
Metaregistry NCBI Taxonomy

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 20 mappings to external registries for this resource with 10 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl NCBITAXON
AgroPortal AgroPortal logo agroportal NCBITAXON
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 509
BioContext biocontext TAXONOMY
BioPortal BioPortal Prefixes logo bioportal NCBITAXON
Cellosaurus Cellosaurus Registry logo cellosaurus NCBI_TaxID
EDAM EDAM Ontology logo edam 1179
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.fj07xj
GO Gene Ontology Registry logo go NCBITaxon
HL7 HL7 External Code Systems logo hl7 2.16.840.1.113883.6.205
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam taxonomy
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t taxonomy
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information Registry logo ncbi taxon
OBO Foundry OBO Foundry logo obofoundry ncbitaxon
OLS Ontology Lookup Service logo ols ncbitaxon
OntoBee OntoBee logo ontobee NCBITaxon
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons taxonomy
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100010415
TogoID togoid Taxonomy
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P685
RDF Information

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_$1

Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 2170610 is used to demonstrate the providers available for NCBI Taxonomy. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
NCBI Taxonomy ncbitaxon http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_2170610
NCBI Taxonomy (RDF) rdf http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_2170610
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/ncbitaxon:2170610
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/taxonomy:2170610
OBO Foundry obofoundry http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_2170610
Ontology Lookup Service ols https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/ncbitaxon/terms?iri=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_2170610
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/taxonomy:2170610
BioPortal Prefixes bioportal https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/NCBITAXON/?p=classes&conceptid=http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_2170610
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Code Name URL
CURATOR_REVIEW Taxonomy through UniProt PURL https://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/2170610
CURATOR_REVIEW Bio2RDF https://bio2rdf.org/taxonomy:2170610
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/taxonomy:2170610
ebi European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/Taxon:2170610
scholia Scholia https://scholia.toolforge.org/ncbi-taxon/2170610