National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) · Example Payload

Taxonomy Name Report

Retrieve taxonomy data by organism name

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Taxonomy Name Report is an example object payload from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), with 7 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

titledescriptionpathmethodbaseURLparametersnotes

Example Payload

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{
  "title": "Taxonomy Name Report",
  "description": "Retrieve taxonomy data by organism name",
  "path": "/taxonomy/taxon/{taxons}/dataset_report",
  "method": "GET",
  "baseURL": "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2",
  "parameters": {
    "taxons": "9606"
  },
  "notes": "Taxon can be scientific name, common name, or NCBI Taxonomy ID"
}