ega-4-defs-organism-obi0100026-descriptor-block-properties-ncbi-taxon-of-the-organism.md

NCBI Taxon of the organism Schema

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Taxonomic classification of the organism (e.g. 'NCBITaxon:9606' and 'homo sapiens' for humans) curated by the NCBI Taxonomy (search for organisms here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy; or use the OLS: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/ncbitaxon). You can find further details at 'https://www.uniprot.org/help/taxonomic_identifier'. This is appropriate for individual organisms and some environmental samples.

Abstract	Extensible	Status	Identifiable	Custom Properties	Additional Properties	Access Restrictions	Defined In
Can be instantiated	No	Unknown status	No	Forbidden	Allowed	none	EGA.common-definitions.json*

organismTaxon Type

object (NCBI Taxon of the organism)

all of

• Ontology term

organismTaxon Properties

Property	Type	Required	Nullable	Defined by
termId	Not specified	Optional	cannot be null	EGA common metadata definitions

termId

termId

• is optional

• Type: unknown (Ontology constraints for this specific termId)

• cannot be null

• defined in: EGA common metadata definitions

termId Type

unknown (Ontology constraints for this specific termId)

termId Examples

"NCBITaxon:9606"

"NCBITaxon:155900"

"NCBITaxon:408170"

"NCBITaxon:447426"