Include NCBI TaxID alongside the participants names

[cpauvert]

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[cpauvert]

This seems feasible if relying on the great taxize R package from ropensci. The following example:

library(taxize) # might need an API key for entrez
get_uid("Zygotorulaspora florentina", rank_query="species")
# Provides 48255 OR NA if wrong name

[cpauvert]

With the issue #18 in mind, I started some time ago to work on this issue and few problems arose.

The search for NCBI Tax ID failed for some participants names (ex: row 1 in table below), probably because of trailing sp. or spp. (which seems easy to tackle).

Moreover some participants names are fuzzy (ex: row 5 or 10) which has two consequences:

1. They will need renaming but in a tractable way
2. The taxonomic resolution might also change (row 1 P1 will become only at the genus resolution instead of species)

I am still not sure how to deal with these problems nor exactly how to properly sanitize the names and tax id without hand corrections.

                Participant_1                   Participant_2     TR1     TR2
1           Acanthamoeba spp.          Candidatus Procabacter species   genus
2       Acetobacterium woodii         Pelobacter acidigallici species species
3               Acinetobacter              Pseudomonas putida   genus species
4       Alteromonas macleodii                 Prochlorococcus species   genus
5  Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria      Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria   class   class
6            Archaea (ANME-2)              Desulfosarcina sp.  phylum   genus
7        Aspergillus nidulans      Streptomyces rapamycinicus species species
8             Azotobacter sp.                  Alternaria sp. species species
9                Bacillus sp.            Debaryomyces vanriji species species
10         Bacteroides ovatus Bacteroides vulgatus and others species species