Input

Provide a file or directory containing 7-rank Linnaean taxonomic metadata. Inputs may be CSV or Parquet. Expected columns include:

• uuid: a unique identifier for each sample (required).
• kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species: the taxonomic ranks of the organism (required, may have sparsity).
• scientific_name: the scientific name to the most specific rank available (optional).
• common_name: the common (i.e. vernacular) name of the organism (optional).

Example Files

• sample.parquet
• sample.csv