Get Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA) of Two Taxonomy Nodes

Use this function to retrieve lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two taxonomy nodes in UniProt Taxonomy database

Usage

rba_uniprot_taxonomy_lca(ids, ...)

Arguments

ids

(numeric) Numeric vector of NCBI taxonomic identifiers, with minimum length of two.

...

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

Value

A list with UniProt taxonomy information of your supplied taxonomy elements.

Corresponding API Resources

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

References

• The UniProt Consortium , UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025, Nucleic Acids Research, 2024;, gkae1010, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1010

• Andrew Nightingale, Ricardo Antunes, Emanuele Alpi, Borisas Bursteinas, Leonardo Gonzales, Wudong Liu, Jie Luo, Guoying Qi, Edd Turner, Maria Martin, The Proteins API: accessing key integrated protein and genome information, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 45, Issue W1, 3 July 2017, Pages 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))
# }