Organisms are identified by NCBI Taxonomy identifiers, and this endpoint translates such an identifier into a readable name. The endpoint is served from /new_api/taxonomy/.

1. Get taxonomy

Looks up an NCBI Taxonomy identifier (for example 9606) and returns the scientific name of that organism, resolved from the NCBI taxonomy dump downloaded by the server.

1.1. HTTP request

GET /minerva/new_api/taxonomy/9606 HTTP/1.1

1.2. CURL sample

$ curl 'https://minerva-dev.lcsb.uni.lu/minerva/new_api/taxonomy/9606' -X GET

1.3. HTTP response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

1.4. Response Fields

Path Type Description

id

String

taxonomy identifier

name

String

taxonomy name

1.5. Sample Response

{
  "id" : "9606",
  "name" : "Homo sapiens"
}