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Download complete Phylogenetic Tree as JSON

Christopher Patterson  Follow

NCBI maintains an SQL dump of their taxonomic database

You can see what that contains here

For smaller requests (depending on what you need), you might also consider the ENSEMBL REST API - although I don't know of a way to retrieve the complete tree (shoot them an email): https://rest.ensembl.org/taxonomy/classification/53399?content-type=application/json

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Chukwuebuka Sunday  Follow

It would be worth looking at the Tree of Life web project, it isn't downloadable but its a reference source that can be improved on and updated in your website.

ToL contains trees linking everything from bacteria, archaea through to the complete diversity of eukaryotes, but its a bit old with 2008 from my taxonomic knowledge being the last update for some of the entries, e.g. Plasmodium spp..

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