Extracting strain name from several assemblies

Question

[genomes_and_MGEs]

Hey guys,

Another question: Some of the outputs don't have the strain name. I guess the reason is that the organism name doesn't have that info. For example here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_003290365.1/. If I use

for f in GCF* ; do term=$(echo $f | cut -f1,2 -d'_') ; esearch -db assembly -q $term | esummary | xtract -pattern DocumentSummary -sep ' ' -element Organism,Strain,AssemblyAccession | sed 's/ /_/g' ; done > filenames.txt

The strain name doesn't appear on filenames.txt. Could you please let me know what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers

[GenoMax]

If I just run the example you posted it works but does not print a strain info:

$ esearch -db assembly -q GCF_003290365.1 | esummary | xtract -pattern DocumentSummary -sep ' ' -element Organism,Strain,AssemblyAccession
Pseudomonas putida (g-proteobacteria) GCF_003290365.1

It looks like the strain number is in a different field (sub_value) which you may need to include:

$ esearch -db assembly -q GCF_003290365.1 | esummary | xtract -pattern DocumentSummary -sep ' ' -element Organism,Sub_value,AssemblyAccession
Pseudomonas putida (g-proteobacteria) NX-1 GCF_003290365.1

You can try this and let us know if this works for other items on your list.

Edit: Re-reading your post it seems that you are not able to generate an answer (strain name). In that case you need to investigate term=$(echo $f | cut -f1,2 -d'_') to see what values you are getting for term. Put an echo $term to examine that variable in your loop (remove the esearch command temporarily, if needed).