Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: ntmirror
Version: 1.4.1
Summary: Easily updatable local NCBI taxonomy database copy
Home-page: https://github.com/ggonnella/fastsubtrees/tree/main/ntmirror
Author: Giorgio Gonnella
Author-email: gonnella@zbh.uni-hamburg.de
License: ISC
Keywords: ncbi taxonomy database mirror
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: ISC License (ISCL)
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE.txt
License-File: AUTHORS.txt

# NtMirror

NtMirror is a tool for creating and keeping up-to-date a local
mirror of the NCBI Taxonomy database.

## Requirements

The software is distributed as a Python 3 package.

An installation by pip is only possible, if the ``mariadb``
module is installed (which requires installation of MariaDB
and its C and Python connectors).

In MariaDB, the database data loading is performed using the
``mysql`` library and not using SqlAlchemy, since the loading is faster.

## Adapting to other RDBMS

NtMirror has been developed and tested using MariaDB as RDBMS.
However, database data loading using SqlAlchemy was also implemented,
so that the software can be used or easily adapted to
other RDBMS supported by SqlAlchemy.

## Usage manual



