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taxonomies

ensembl.taxonomies

Species and genome assemblies covered by the Ensembl annotation in this catalogue.

Small unpartitioned lookup table.

One row per species/release.

Use taxonomy_id (NCBI taxonomy ID) as the partition key for every other ensembl table (e.g. 9606 for human).

Related tables: ensembl.genes (join on taxonomy_id).

  • release
    • '116'
Column Type Description
release TEXT Partition column. Ensembl release number the annotation was drawn from.
taxonomy_id INT NCBI taxonomy ID for the species (e.g. 9606 for human).
scientific_name TEXT Binomial scientific name (e.g. Homo sapiens).
common_name TEXT Common name of the species (e.g. human). May be null.
assembly TEXT Reference genome assembly name (e.g. GRCh38).