[NHCOLL-L:1767] GenBank

[Gregory Watkins-Colwell]

Today I was given a reprint from somebody who borrowed YPM specimens 
recently and conducted a molecular analysis.  They deposited their 
sequences at GenBank (at the requirement of the Journal they used for the 
paper).  In the paper, they cite the GenBank "Accession Number" and not any 
museum catalog numbers.  Nowhere in the paper is there an appendix or 
anything indicating which sequences have voucher specimens or where those 
voucher specimens might be.  Has this happened to anyone else before?  Does 
GenBank keep any records that would link their "Accession Number" to the 
actual catalog number for the voucher specimen?

Do most molecular-based journal rely entirely upon the GenBank number and 
not the museum catalog numbers for such things?  This just seems wrong.

Greg


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