List available metagenomes on NCBI Genbank — listMetaGenomes • biomartr
Description: List available metagenomes on NCBI genbank. NCBI genbank allows users to download entire metagenomes of several metagenome projects. This function lists all available metagenomes that can then be downloaded via getMetaGenomes.

# List available metagenomes on NCBI Genbank

Source: `R/listMetaGenomes.R`
`listMetaGenomes.Rd`

List available metagenomes on NCBI genbank. NCBI genbank allows users to download entire metagenomes of several metagenome projects. This function lists all available metagenomes that can then be downloaded via `getMetaGenomes`.

    listMetaGenomes(details = FALSE)

## Arguments

details

  a boolean value specifying whether only the scientific names of stored metagenomes shall be returned (`details = FALSE`) or all information such as "organism_name","bioproject", etc (`details = TRUE`).

## See also

`getMetaGenomes`, `getMetaGenomeSummary`

## Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

## Examples

    if (FALSE) {
    # retrieve available metagenome projects at NCBI Genbank
    listMetaGenomes()
    # retrieve detailed information on available metagenome projects
    # at NCBI Genbank
    listMetaGenomes(details = TRUE)
    }