getCommonAncestor {PhyloProfile} | R Documentation

## Get all taxa that share a common ancestor

### Description

Identify the common ancestor for a selected taxa and return a list of all taxa that have that common ancestor from an large input taxa set.

### Usage

    getCommonAncestor(inputTaxa = NULL, inGroup = NULL)

### Arguments

`inputTaxa` | ID list of all input taxa (e.g. "ncbi12345")
`inGroup` | ID list of selected taxa used for identify the common ancestor (e.g.: "ncbi55555")

### Value

A list containing the taxonomy rank and name of the common ancestor, together with a dataframe storing the full taxonomy info of all taxa that share that corresponding common ancestor.

### Author(s)

Vinh Tran (tran@bio.uni-frankfurt.de)

### Examples

    inputTaxa <- c("ncbi34740", "ncbi9606", "ncbi374847", "ncbi123851",
        "ncbi5664", "ncbi189518", "ncbi418459", "ncbi10116", "ncbi284812",
        "ncbi35128", "ncbi7070")
    inGroup <-  c("ncbi9606", "ncbi10116")
    getCommonAncestor(inputTaxa, inGroup)

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