[NHCOLL-L:2026] Re: Lack of voucher numbers for sequences.

[Tom Wendt]

No to perhaps all of those, but they could have a separate voucher 
field that would ENCOURAGE responsible scientific scholarship.

Tom Wendt


>Chris.Ecroyd at ForestResearch.co.nz wrote:
>>Perhaps someone should give Genbank examples of why it should be
>>done.
>
>What exactly should GenBank do about it?  Refuse to accept accession
>records that do not identify voucher specimens?  Contact the source
>museum?  Complain to journal editors?  Scold the researcher?  Is the
>organismal biology research community so undisciplined and immature
>that we need GenBank to take on this role?
>
>I think the folks at GenBank are smart enough not to touch this one.
>
>	Una Smith
>
>Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS K-710, Los Alamos, NM  87545