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</head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class=""><span class=""><font size="5" class="">A new GenBank Submission Tool in Symbiota</font></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong class=""><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Speaker:</span></strong><span class="">&nbsp;Andy Miller</span><br class=""><strong class=""><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Date:</span></strong><span class="">&nbsp;Thursday 3/8/2018</span><br class=""><strong class=""><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Time:&nbsp;</span></strong><span class="">12:00pm-1:00pm Eastern Time</span><br class=""><strong class=""><span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Location</span></strong><span class="">:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_room&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=82m7LpA0nozFpKstnCQ1Vu016cq3vLmLgTYwTji0iGs&s=Trf24IIIadeiCy13fE_Flku-fBPxrn5N6_8oos7TiuA&e=" class=""><span class="" style="color: windowtext; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room</span></a><br class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><br class=""></span><span class="">Although&nbsp;</span><span class="">metadata&nbsp;for&nbsp;millions of specimens have been assembled in several collection management systems, integration into pipelines for serving source modifers of DNA sequence data does not exist. A majority of GenBank sequence records lack the most basic source modifiers. A new GenBank sequence submission module has been developed to automatically populate source modifiers during sequence submission, thus greatly improving the integration and attribution of specimen and genetic data.</span>&nbsp;</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Best,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Andy</div></div><div class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;  "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;  "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;  "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;  "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;  "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class=""><div class="">–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</div><div class="">Andrew Miller, Ph.D.</div><div class="">Mycologist and Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium</div><div class="">University of Illinois</div><div class="">Illinois Natural History Survey</div><div class="">1816 South Oak Street</div><div class="">Champaign, IL &nbsp;61820-6970</div><div class="">phone: (217) 244-0439</div><div class="">email: <a href="mailto:amiller7@illinois.edu" class="">amiller7@illinois.edu</a></div><div class="">website:<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wwx.inhs.illinois.edu_research_pi_amiller&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=82m7LpA0nozFpKstnCQ1Vu016cq3vLmLgTYwTji0iGs&s=SW3Uac79AYQ3cCSqrllCdz5LcCAqfeSWX3sb25wUmEE&e=" class="">http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/research/pi/amiller</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Office address:</div><div class="">Robert A. Evers Laboratory</div><div class="">Room 2003</div><div class="">1909 South Oak Street,&nbsp;MC-652</div></div></div></span></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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