Registry

Identifier

registry

License

Public domain (inherited from NCBI Taxonomy and RefSeq)

Citation

Derived resource — cite the underlying source. Schoch CL, Ciufo S, Domrachev M, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020;2020:baaa062. doi:10.1093/database/baaa062. O'Leary NA, et al. Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI. Nucleic Acids Res 2016;44(D1):D733-D745. doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1189.

Overview

Canonical identity for entities that appear across namespaces.

Each table answers only “which one is this”: the canonical key and identifier aliases needed to resolve it.

Attributes are not stored here — after resolving an entity, read them from its source-of-record table.

Derived from the source-of-record namespace for each entity type (ncbi_taxonomy for taxa and refseq for assemblies and chromosomes).

This namespace deliberately does not derive identity from aggregators.

Tables

• registry.taxa — Canonical identity for live NCBI taxonomy nodes.