C. Titus Brown

we could also make it part of the release process for new versions of sourmash - there's a place in there where we update the version numbers.

they probably changed it. they do that.

wait I don't understand. apologies if I'm missing something obvious 😓 GTDB is distinct from GenBank taxonomy. They use the same genome accessions, but the taxonomies are intentionally not concordant....

here, the genbank link matches what's in the GTDB zipfile, which is an assembly record named based on the Genbank classification. the GTDB folk have decided it's a different *Escherichia*,...

> Would it be best to update the signature name with the species rank name from the lineage spreadsheet and a unique identifier? sounds like work

so, some slightly more sober thoughts ;). I agree that it's confusing that when you find matches with search/gather in a database named 'gtdb', you get the NCBI genome names,...

> We can add an extra column to the manifest for "preferred"/"overwrite" name, and use that (if present) when outputting in `gather`/`search`/any other place reporting names. Manifest are easy to...

Separation of name and taxonomy! A sourmash superpower (in many ways) is that we can key multiple different taxonomies on the same accession. But the flip side is that the...

> And, for taxonomic profiling, would it be more intuitive for users reading their gather output for the database to be called NCBI instead of GTDB because the signature names...

yes, I understand. someone needs to propose a specific solution, and then someone needs to do the work. The person doing the work generally gets a large say in which...