Add publication info to assembly or BioProject fields.

[conchoecia]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I would like to be able to quickly determine what research article I should reference simply from looking at the output of datasets for a particular genome assembly or BioProject. This publication information is often on the NCBI website, but when I programmatically access the same accession/BioProject, there is no reference to the publication.

For example, on the BioProject page for the common carp, there is a paper to cite: Chang YS et al., "The complete nucleotide sequence and gene organization of carp (Cyprinus carpio) mitochondrial genome.", J Mol Evol, 1994 Feb;38(2):138-55

However, when I query the same BioProject on the command line there is no publication information: datasets summary genome accession PRJNA682709

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Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice if there were a meaningful "publication" field that was the publication that should be cited when that data source is used!

Thank you-

[olearyna]

Hi conchoecia,

Thank you for opening this issue. While we won't be able to get to it any time soon, please know that we are exploring better ways to enhance data attribution. We'll keep this issue open until the issue is resolved.

Nuala

Nuala A. O'Leary, PhD
Product Owner, NCBI Datasets
National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, DHHS

[conchoecia]

Thanks for the response, @olearyna! Good luck with the development