Skip to content

Convert species scientific names to common names (english), and other useful taxonomic queries, using the NCBI taxonomy

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

Gullumluvl/Scientific2CommonName

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

12 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

Convert species latin/scientific names to common names

USAGE:

./Scientific2CommonName.py "Cuculus canorus" "Podiceps cristatus"

or to convert from common names to scientific:

./Scientific2CommonName.py -c "turkey vulture"

Reading from standard input is allowed:

echo -e "Melitaea cinxia\nSepia officinalis" | ./Scientific2CommonName.py

OUTPUT

one name per line to stdout. Not found name (either no common name in the database, or species was not found at all) shows as "NA".

Fetch taxon name

Same usage. See FindClade -h


Please use/share/modify this code as you want.

About

Convert species scientific names to common names (english), and other useful taxonomic queries, using the NCBI taxonomy

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published

Languages