How To Get The Genus For A Given Species/Subspecies/No Rank

Question

[Nachocab]

I downloaded all the NCBI taxonomy dumps from the public FTP, and I'm trying to assign the genus to a list of taxon_ids that I got from blasting.

The problem is that some taxon_ids are species, others are subspecies, and others are "no rank". Also, the parent of a species is usually a genus, but it can also be a "subspecies group", or a "species group".

It seems like there should be a tool/approach to do this easily, but I haven't been able to find it. Any ideas?

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

You can do the above very easily with MEGAN (Metagenome analyzer), plus it draws you pretty pictures, trees etc.

http://ab.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/software/megan/

you can also export the reads that support the classification.