Get Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA) of Two Taxonomy Nodes

Retrieve the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two or more nodes in the UniProt Taxonomy database.

Usage

rba_uniprot_taxonomy_lca(ids, ...)

Arguments

ids

Numeric: NCBI taxonomic identifiers. Supply at least two IDs.

...

rbioapi option(s). See rba_options's arguments manual for more information on available options.

Value

A list containing the lowest common ancestor's taxonomy information.

Corresponding API Resources

"GET https://www.ebi.ac.uk/proteins/api/taxonomy/ancestor/{ids}"

References

• The UniProt Consortium. (2025). UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025. Nucleic Acids Research, 53(D1), D609–D617. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1010

• Nightingale, A., Antunes, R., Alpi, E., Bursteinas, B., Gonzales, L., Liu, W., Luo, J., Qi, G., Turner, E., & Martin, M. (2017). The Proteins API: Accessing key integrated protein and genome information. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(W1), W539–W544. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx237

• Proteins API Documentation

• Citations note on UniProt website

See also

Other "UniProt - Taxonomy": rba_uniprot_taxonomy(), rba_uniprot_taxonomy_lineage(), rba_uniprot_taxonomy_name(), rba_uniprot_taxonomy_path(), rba_uniprot_taxonomy_relationship()

Examples

# \donttest{
rba_uniprot_taxonomy_lca(c(9606,10090,9823,7712))
# }