Is there a way to use API to convert taxa-ID to common/scientific name via NCBI?
Is there some sort of API-based method (or similar) to access taxa-ID info from NCBI? I would like to retrieve the organism's common or scientific name for example.
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E-Utils https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/
Biomart is also an option
https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi?db=taxonomy&id=9606 worked
If you have a lot of entries, I recommend downloading map files