# metagenompy: The NCBI taxonomy as a NetworkX graph

[metagenompy](https://github.com/kpj/metagenompy) allows easy access to [NCBI's taxonomy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy) by transforming it into a [NetworkX](https://networkx.org/) graph object.

It is then possible to quickly compute taxonomic distances between organisms, visualize subsets of the whole taxonomy and classify metagenomic BLAST results.

![Taxonomic subtree](metagenompy_resources/network.png)
![BLAST classification](metagenompy_resources/piechart.png)