buildOBITaxonomy.py -t <taxdump dir> -d <db name>
Convert an text dump directory of the NCBI Taxonomy database to the binary format used by ecoPCR and many OBITools scripts. An archive corresponding to this directory can be downloaded at the following URL
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/
for building a new taxonomy database named ncbitaxonomy from a taxdump dir
% curl ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/taxdump.tar.gz | tar zxf -
% buildOBITaxonomy.py --taxonomy-dump taxdump --database ncbitaxonomy