NAME

         GO::Parsers::ncbi_taxonomy_parser - Parser for NCBI taxonomy

SYNOPSIS

         do not use this class directly; use GO::Parser

DESCRIPTION

       See <ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/taxonomy/taxonomy.dat>

PARSER ARCHITECTURE

       This generates Stag event streams from one of the various GO flat file formats (ontology,
       defs, xref, associations). See GO::Parser for details

       Examples of these files can be found at http://www.geneontology.org

       A description of the event streams generated follows; Stag or an XML handler can be used
       to catch these events