rank
====

    A string value corresponding to the lowest taxonomic rank of :doc:`taxid <./taxid>` stored 
    into the :doc:`taxid <taxid>` attribute.

    .. warning::  This taxonomic information is just added to the sequence for the end-user
          convenience and not used by other ``obitools`` programs as taxonomic information.
          Only the taxonomic information included in the :doc:`taxid <../attributes/taxid>`
          attribute is used as taxonomic annotation.

    Attribute added by the programs:
        - :doc:`obiuniq <../scripts/obiuniq>`
        - :doc:`obiannotate <../scripts/obiannotate>`