HUM-MOLGEN archive: ANNO, COMP: submission of sequence data to GENBANK

From: IN%"francis@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov" 19-JUL-1995 13:36:59.51 Subj: Submissions od DNA sequences to GenBank SUBMISSION OF SEQUENCE DATA TO GENBANK 6/95 YOUR MANUSCRIPT Most journals now expect that DNA and amino acid sequences that appear in articles will be submitted to a sequence database before publication. Please be aware that it is only necessary to submit the sequence to one database, whichever one is most convenient, without regard for where the sequence may be published. Data exchange between GenBank, EMBL and DDBJ occurs daily. BANKIT -- GENBANK SUBMISSION TOOL FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB NCBI now has a new GenBank sequence submission tool, called BankIt, that is accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW). BankIt uses a simple forms-based approach to creating your GenBank submission. No special software is necessary, other than a WWW browser, such as Mosaic or Netscape. BankIt has been tested on the following WWW browsers: MAC MacWeb and Netscape PC Netscape UNIX Netscape and Mosaic The current release of Mosaic for the PC and MAC does not work with Bankit. The URL for the NCBI Home Page, which provides access to BankIt as well as other NCBI and GenBank Services, is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ AUTHORIN If you do not have access to WWW, the current method of formatting your sequence data for submission to GenBank is to use the Authorin program. This program is available for IBM or Macintosh (24-bit addressing only) and can be obtained free of charge from: Authorin National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine Bldg. 38A, Room 8N-803 Bethesda, MD 20894 Voice: (301) 496-2475 FAX: (301) 480-9241 E-Mail: authorin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov You can also obtain Authorin from the NCBI anonymous ftp server (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Login as anonymous and use your e-mail address as your password. You will find the Mac version (3.0) in the /pub/authorin/mac directory and the DOS version (1.2) in the /pub/authorin/dos directory. Authorin employs easy-to-use on-screen forms in which to enter information about the submitter of the sequence, the associated bibliographic and biological data, and the sequence itself. The program is provided with full documentation. Submission files generated by Authorin (files ending in the extension .sbt) may be sent by electronic mail to: gb-sub@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov As an alternative, the submission file can be copied to floppy disk and mailed to GenBank Submissions at the above postal address. Please label the disk with your name and file name and indicate whether it is a PC or Mac disk. ACCESSION NUMBERS For each sequence that you submit, a unique identification number will be issued by the GenBank staff (within 24 hours, if received via electronic mail). This accession number serves as confirmation that you have submitted your data, and allows the community to retrieve the data upon reading the journal article. The accession number should be included in your manuscript, preferably in a footnote on the first page of the article, or as individual journal procedures direct. UPDATES GenBank updates can be submitted through electronic mail (using an e-mail message, the structured GenBank update form, or an Authorin .sbt file) or through the World Wide Web using BankIt. Be sure that when sending in updates, particularly with Authorin files, that you clearly indicate that it is an update and not a new submission. Also, be sure to indicate the accession number(s) for the record(s) being updated. The electronic form available for providing update information can be requested from our update e-mail address: update@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov If your update information is a simple revision, such as a citation change or release of information, you can send an e-mail message in paragraph form explaining the change. Be sure to give the accession number of the sequence to be updated along with all update, correction, or publication information. Alternatively, you may send a copy of your GenBank flat file with the updated information and include a message indicating where changes have been made. SUBMISSION FORM We strongly urge submitters to use BankIt or Authorin, but if you are unable to do so, we have an electronic submission form that can be used as an alternative. Please specify that you need the electronic submission form. Request it from: authorin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov EST/STS SUBMISSIONS EST (expressed sequence tag) and STS (sequence tagged site) data can be submitted to GenBank and dbEST/dbSTS using a special data submission format. For further information and a copy of this file format contact: info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov CONFIDENTIALITY Many authors are concerned that submission of data prior to appearance of a manuscript may compromise their work. GenBank will, upon request, withhold release of the submitted data until the publication of the manuscript. Upon publication of the sequence or the accession number, however, the entire sequence as submitted must be released. ***PLEASE NOTE*** It is important that you inform us of acceptance or appearance of the data in a publication; please send the full publication data - all authors, title, journal, volume, pages and date - to the following address: update@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov