Strain metadata field missing from datasets download (for oropouche)

[anna-parker]

Describe the bug

We are using ncbi datasets to download data from NCBI we recently realized that the strain name is not added when we download all Oropouche assemblies.

datasets download virus genome taxon 118655

For example AF164550.1 has strain="MD023" but this is not included as a field in ncbi_dataset/data/data_report.jsonl.

To Reproduce

1. Download all oropouche sequences with metadata using
   datasets download virus genome taxon 118655
2. Unzip the file using /usr/bin/unzip ncbi_dataset.zip
3. Search for strain, search for MD023 in the file -> not found.

Expected behavior
We would expect to find the strain field (if this is renamed this is not a problem) when we download the data. This would be quite useful as some submitters use this a sample identifier. Thanks in advance for any help!

[olearyna]

Hi anna-parker,

Thanks for opening this issue. I've passed your request along to Eneida Hatcher and the NCBI Virus team, as they are the group responsible for the underlying data. They're looking into it and any updates they make will flow through to the the Datasets report.

Thanks,
Nuala