Download complete Phylogenetic Tree as JSON I would like to integrate the phylogenetic tree into a website. Does anyone know where I can download the complete tree? Best would be a JSON, which looks something like this:
[{
  &quot;level&quot;: &quot;domain&quot;,
  &quot;name&quot;: &quot;eukaryota&quot;,
  &quot;commonNames&quot;: {
    &quot;en&quot;: [&quot;eukaryotes&quot;],
    &quot;de&quot;: [&quot;Eukaryoten&quot;, &quot;Eukaryonten&quot;]
  },
  &quot;children&quot;: [
    {
      &quot;level&quot;: &quot;kingdom&quot;,
      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;plantae&quot;,
      &quot;commonNames&quot;: {
        &quot;en&quot;: [&quot;plants&quot;],
        &quot;de&quot;: [&quot;Pflanzen&quot;]
      },
      &quot;children&quot;: [...]
    },
    {
      &quot;level&quot;: &quot;kingdom&quot;,
      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;animalia&quot;,
      &quot;commonNames&quot;: {
        &quot;en&quot;: [&quot;animals&quot;],
        &quot;de&quot;: [&quot;Tiere&quot;]
      },
      &quot;children&quot;: [...]
    },
    ...
  ]
},
{
  &quot;level&quot;: &quot;domain&quot;,
  &quot;name&quot;: &quot;bacteria&quot;,
  &quot;commonNames&quot;: {
    &quot;en&quot;: [&quot;bacteria&quot;],
    &quot;de&quot;: [&quot;Bakterien&quot;]
  },
  &quot;children&quot;: [...]
}]

Other formats and structures are ok, too. The important thing is that the level of the nodes can be retrieved. In the end I only want to have the main levels Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species in the tree. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)#/media/File:Biological_classification_L_Pengo_vflip.svg) So if there are more nodes from other levels like Clade, Tribe or Subfamily, it must be possible to identify and remove them.
Thanks a lot!
NCBI maintains an SQL dump of their taxonomic database
You can see what that contains here
For smaller requests (depending on what you need), you might also consider the ENSEMBL REST API - although I don't know of a way to retrieve the complete tree (shoot them an email): https://rest.ensembl.org/taxonomy/classification/53399?content-type=application/json