UniProt Taxonomy Record by Taxon ID

uniprotrest/get-taxon

Returns the UniProt taxonomy record for an NCBI taxon id, for example 9606 (Homo sapiens): scientific and common name, mnemonic, rank, parent taxon, the full lineage with each ancestor's rank, other names, reference links and counts of reviewed, unreviewed and reference-proteome proteins. UniProt data (CC BY 4.0), passed through unmodified and served by Eden Engine; not an official UniProt product.

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Data source

UniProt Consortium

Data from UniProt (UniProt Consortium), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Served by Eden Engine; not an official UniProt product.

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// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "uniprotrest/get-taxon" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "uniprotrest/get-taxon" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "uniprotrest/get-taxon", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "uniprotrest/get-taxon", input: { /* ... */ } })

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Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0026

Updated: Oct 20, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "taxon_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "taxon_id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "NCBI taxonomy id, for example 9606 for human, 10090 for mouse or 562 for Escherichia coli."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "taxonId",
    "scientificName"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "rank": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "For example species, genus or family."
    },
    "links": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Reference URLs for the taxon."
    },
    "active": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "hidden": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "parent": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "The parent taxon: scientificName and taxonId.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "lineage": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": true
      },
      "description": "Ancestors from the root down, each with scientificName, taxonId, rank, hidden and sometimes commonName."
    },
    "taxonId": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "The NCBI taxon id."
    },
    "mnemonic": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "UniProt's five-letter organism code, for example HUMAN."
    },
    "commonName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "For example Human. Absent when there is none."
    },
    "otherNames": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "statistics": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "reviewedProteinCount, unreviewedProteinCount, referenceProteomeCount and proteomeCount.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "scientificName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "For example Homo sapiens."
    }
  },
  "description": "The UniProt taxonomy record for the taxon.",
  "additionalProperties": true
}