RESCRIPT: species information in GTDB

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

Hi @GSH ,
Thanks for this information. This bug was already discovered in June 2024 and fixed in versions 2024.5.1 and later, as announced here:

[RESOLVED] bug in RESCRIPt get-gtdb-data action in initial 2024.5 release

We recently detected a bug in the RESCRIPt plugin in the initial 2024.5 release, affecting the get-gtdb-data action, which automatically downloads and formats sequences and taxonomy from the Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB), e.g., for taxonomic classification. Due to a recent update in how the GTDB taxonomy is parsed, a bug was introduced that caused the taxonomy to complete only from kingdom to genus level. Species-level information was being ignored. The taxonomy was otherwise correct, so this…

Could you please install the latest version and let us know if you still encounter an issue?