Taxonomy services

• Bug Fix: Resolved an issue in the Taxonomy TSV report where column values were incorrectly mismatched.

Documentation

• Updated the Genome Notes definitions.

Gene data report

• Resolved an issue where outdated RefSeqs from previous versions were being displayed.

Genome web page

• Fixed an issue where genome FTP links were displayed even when corresponding FTP files were unavailable.

Taxonomy services

• Updated retrieval logic to ensure only the latest taxonomy image is displayed.
• Added support for secondary taxonomy IDs in the taxonomy data report

Virus services

• Optimized the virus download service for faster and more efficient performance.

Command-line tool

• Resolved a bug with the --fasta-filter flag.

NCBI Datasets internal processing

This release focuses on internal processing improvements, enhancing system performance and reliability.

Command-line tool

• Added support for --inputfile for taxon names and identifiers for the datasets summary and download genome commands.

API Documentation

Added a valid examples to the path parameters for all POST and GET requests.

Gene data report

Added the RefSeq summary to the gene data report.

Taxonomy TSV report

• Resolved a bug that introduced a trailing newline and space in the Taxonomy TSV report.

Documentation

• Added a new How-to for getting the underlying Nucleotide accessions for an Assembly accession
• Resolved a bug that hindered the prefill of the request body for POST endpoints.

Taxonomy data report

• Included a new column titled "Current Scientific Name is Formal" in the taxonomy TSV template.

Data packages

• Added MD5 checksums for files referenced in fetch.txt within dehydrated download packages.

Gene data report

• Included gene location information for alternate and patch sequences.

Documentation

• Introduced a search functionality on the NCBI Datasets documentation pages for improved navigation.

API

• Updated API URL from version 2 alpha to version 2.

Documentation

• Added a How-to for file validation.

Genome

• Fixed a bug in the display of genome assembly revision history

Command-line tools

• Implemented an update that activates ZIP file validation by default for NCBI Datasets data packages.
• Improved the error messages for the dataformat tool.

Documentation

• Added description of MD5 checksum file to data package documentation pages.
• Added links to ANI (Average Nucleotide Identity) in documentation
• Restructured documentation to make API information more prominent.
• Updated the API keys page with new details and added related FAQs in preparation for the rate limiting testing phase.