| get_lca | Get the Last Common Ancestor (LCA) of node1 and node2.
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| get_node | Fetch from the database the node that corresponds to the given term
and return it. If the term does not correspond to a Node, an error
is returned.
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| get_nodes | Fetch from the database the nodes that correspond to the given terms
and return them. If any of the term does not correspond to a Node, an
error is returned.
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| make_lineages | Make the lineage for each of the given nodes.
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| make_subtree | Make the sub-tree with the given root as root.
If species is true, then doesn't include in the resulting tree
the nodes that are below nodes ranked as species (such as subspecies).
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| make_tree | Make the tree with the Root as root and the given nodes as leaves.
Any given node that is not a leaf (because another given node is in
its sub-tree) is kept is the returned tree.
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| populate_db | Populate the local taxonomy DB at datadir while sending email
to the NCBI FTP servers.
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