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Taxa: An R package implementing data standards and methods for taxonomic data
2018
F1000Research
The taxa R package provides a set of tools for defining and manipulating taxonomic data. The recent and widespread application of DNA sequencing to community composition studies is making large data sets with taxonomic information commonplace. However, compared to typical tabular data, this information is encoded in many different ways and the hierarchical nature of taxonomic classifications makes it difficult to work with. There are many R packages that use taxonomic data to varying degrees
doi:10.12688/f1000research.14013.1
pmid:29707201
pmcid:PMC5887078
fatcat:z6qncijoznfhtmioellnw2zujy