NAME

setup-taxdir.pl - Setup a local mirror of the NCBI Taxonomy database

VERSION

version 0.181170

USAGE

setup-taxdir.pl --tax=<dir> [optional arguments]

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

--taxdir=<dir>

Path to the directory to be created.

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

--update-cache

Rebuild the binary cache file (cachedb.bin) without re-downloading NCBI Taxonomy files. This is useful to enable custom .dmp files (e.g., misleading.dmp) that were manually added to the directory [default: no].

--gi-mapper

Additionally setup optional mapper file associating taxids to GI numbers for all nucleotide and protein sequences stored in GenBank [default: no].

This file is compiled from two large NCBI archives (1GB and 388 MB as of 12/2014) that can be lengthy to download. Once built, the GI-to-taxid mapper does not occupy a lot of disk space (2 GB as of 12/2014). However, its building process currently requires about 10x more free space.

--version

--usage

--help

--man

Print the usual program information

AUTHOR

Denis BAURAIN <denis.baurain@uliege.be>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by University of Liege / Unit of Eukaryotic Phylogenomics / Denis BAURAIN.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.