---
name: "ktGetTaxInfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "radiant"
version: "2.8.1+dfsg-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ktGetTaxInfo"
---

# ktGetTaxInfo(1)

explore hierarchical metagenomic data with zoomable pie charts

## NAME

ktGetTaxInfo - explore hierarchical metagenomic data with zoomable pie charts

## DESCRIPTION

Description:

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  Retrieves taxonomy information for accessions or taxonomy IDs (as arguments or the first field of \<stdin\>, separated by whitespace). If the input is a number, it is assumed to be a taxonomy ID; otherwise it will be considered an accession or sequence ID containing an accession in the fourth field of pipe notation (e.g. "gi\|12345\|xx\|ABC123.1\|", ignoring fasta/fastq tag markers \[\>,@\]). If taxonomy information was not found for a given input line, the output line will be only the taxonomy ID, which will be 0 if it was looked up from an accession but not found.

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  Output fields are: taxID  depth  parent  rank  name

Usage:

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  ktGetTaxInfo \[IDs ...\] \[\< ID\_list\] \> tax\_info

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  Command line example:

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  ktGetTaxInfo A00001.1 "gi\|2\|emb\|A00002.1\|" 9606

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  Fasta tag example:

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  grep "\>" sequence.fasta \| ktGetTaxInfo

## OPTIONS

- \[-p\]

  Prepend tax info to the original lines (separated by tabs).

- \[-a\]

  Append tax info to the original lines (separated by tabs).

- \[-f\] \<integer\>

  Field of accessions. \[Default: '1'\]

- \[-tax \<string\>

  Path to directory containing a taxonomy database to use.