The search function on the top right currently also returns hits in taxon history through a button, which is nice. However, the taxon history page themselves currently only have a sankey diagram about how many genomes was in the taxon in a particular release (and where it went after, if any). This is not too useful when a taxon has been deleted due to the genome(s) no longer meeting GTDB inclusion criteria, as there is no way to know what the name used to entail.
An example here is s__Eperythrozoon_A haemominutum, though there are plenty others in Eperythrozoon with the same fate.
My feature request is the following: in the “taxon history” page, add a column in the “taxonomy” table after “species” showing the accession number for the species representative. This way people can know what a name meant. (Maybe this can be a new optional key in the API’s TaxonomyOptionalRelease structure?)
Tangential requests
The greedier part of myself also wants to get a richer version of the Sankey diagram data where, in addition to genome counts, there are also lists of genomes. It would be cool for poking around, but perhaps not much more. So no, I’m not asking for that.