Retrieve available kingdoms of life

A short list of available kingdoms of life

Usage

getKingdoms(db = "refseq")

Arguments

db

a character string specifying the database from which the genome shall be retrieved: db = "refseq", db = "genbank", db = "ensembl", db = "ensemblgenomes". Default is db = "refseq".

See also

meta.retrieval, getGenome, getProteome, getCDS, getGroups

Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

# retrieve kingdoms available from refseq
getKingdoms(db = "refseq")
#> [1] "archaea"              "bacteria"             "fungi"               
#> [4] "invertebrate"         "plant"                "protozoa"            
#> [7] "vertebrate_mammalian" "vertebrate_other"     "viral"               

# retrieve kingdoms available from genbank
getKingdoms(db = "genbank")
#> [1] "archaea"              "bacteria"             "fungi"               
#> [4] "invertebrate"         "plant"                "protozoa"            
#> [7] "vertebrate_mammalian" "vertebrate_other"