Services

• This release includes various internal improvements and optimizations to enhance performance and stability.

Genome page

• Fixed a bug in the display of genome assemblies with a latest GenBank (GCA) assembly paired with a suppressed RefSeq (GCF).

Command-line tool

• Fixed a bug with the --taxon-filter flag

Documentation

• Features: Added a page on how to cite NCBI Datasets
• Features: Added a page for how reference genomes are selected
• Updated page on how genomes selected for RefSeq annotation
• Updated Path Parameter examples for the Taxonomy, Gene, Genome, and Virus API endpoints

Genome service

• Added genome annotation data for replaced genome assemblies
• Genome links: Removed nucleotide links from the genome accession links API endpoint

Command-line tool

• Fixed a bug affecting the download genome accession --preview flag.

Documentation

• Added FAQ describing how to download RefSeq annotated plasmid sequences from FTP.
• Updated assembly level definitions in the Glossary.
• Updated the virus examples and prose and BioSample example in v2 REST API docs.

Genome service

• Added an assembly-to-nucleotide link to assembly links endpoint.
• Added an endpoint to return genome accessions from nucleotide accessions.

Command-line tool

• Changed the geo_loc_name field mnemonic and header name to assminfo-biosample-geo-loc-name and Assembly BioSample Geographic location, respectively.

Documentation

• Updated the v2 API REST docs to allow 'Fill Examples' button to handle multiple required parameters

Virus Service

• Features: Improve virus flu delivery performance through regular data caching.

Services

• Added text searching on additional columns in the "Search within result' box on the genome table.

Command-line tool

• Updated the command-line date flag descriptions.

Documentation

• Updated ANI section

Services

• Bug Fixes: Updated virus download parameters to improve performance.

Genome assembly data report

• Features: Added new field names to BioSample section of the assembly data report.

Command line tool

• Bug Fixes: Expose dataformat template flags for taxonomy subcommand.

Documentation

• Bug Fixes: Additional fixes to broken examples on the REST API docs.

API

• Features: Support assembly queries by WGS accession.