Extension:NCBITaxonomyLookup

The NCBITaxonomyLookup extension allows querying the NCBI taxonomy database and pulling the information into wiki pages.

This extension was created for WikiWorks.

Configuration
This extension has the following configuration parameters:


 * - NCBI API URL (defaults to https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi)
 * - Query cache TTL (default: 0)
 * - Set to  to randomize the TTL for each cache entry to prevent server overload if all items expire simultaneously
 * - Fallback to cached value if the remote is unavailable or failed to be fetched
 * - Timeout for API queries (default: 60)
 * - API key

Usage
Use the  parser function to query specific taxonomy item fields:


 * 1st parameter is the subject taxonomy ID
 * 2nd parameter is the XML path to query against