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    • Taxonomy

    Metadata Updated: June 19, 2025

    The Taxonomy Database is a curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases. This currently represents about 10% of the described species of life on the planet.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date June 19, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date June 19, 2025
    Publisher National Library of Medicine
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov/api/views/nmc6-m47x
    Data First Published 2021-08-26
    Data Last Modified 2025-06-18
    Category Biology
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:25
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 51cd32d8-a6f4-41ca-8276-967b131b410c
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy
    License http://opendefinition.org/licenses/odc-odbl/
    Program Code 009:041
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 68cad26f1c5563300fa990cf48cdb5e27cd4e2c75286cd9615e446d7c39f5798
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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