NCBI Taxonomy ontology not helpful for finding SARS-CoV-2

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NCBI Taxonomy ontology not helpful for finding SARS-CoV-2 #119

Open flaneuse opened 2 years ago

flaneuse commented 2 years ago

Apparently the NCBI name for SARS-CoV-2 is Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which makes it hard to find. Would be useful to be able to search the ontologies for acronyms/equivalents and the taxonomy ids.