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NCBIDatasets Suggest Taxonomy

Suggest taxonomic names matching a query string. Searches NCBI Taxonomy for organisms by partial name, returning matching scientific names, taxonomy IDs, common names, and ranks. Useful for finding taxonomy IDs from partial organism names. Example: 'drosophila' returns D. melanogaster (7227), D. simulans (7240), etc.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 323msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 323ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "description": "Partial organism name to search. Examples: 'drosophila', 'escherichia', 'arabidopsis', 'saccharomyces'.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default NCBIDatasets Suggest Taxonomy call

public-safeinput

{
  "query": "BRCA1"
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_NCBIDatasets_suggest_taxonomy
Tool name: NCBIDatasets_suggest_taxonomy
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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