Exercise 2: Investigating the taxonomy of the organism

In the previous exercise, the top hit was from Raphus cucullatus. In this exercise we will explore the taxonomy of this organism.

Click on NCBI/Taxonomy. This is located near the bottom of the Sources panel (this is the panel on the left hand side of Geneious).


Enter Raphus cucullatus in the Search box and click the Search button. This search returns the entire taxonomic lineage of the species (phylum, order, family etc.), as well as its common name.

Click on the Lineage (full) link in the viewer to go to the taxonomy information on the NCBI website. Under the LinkOut heading, click on the species name next to the Encyclopedia of Life. This link will export you to information about the species in question.


Exercise 3: Searching Genbank for further sequences from the same species
Exercise 4: Genome searching