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Kind of Throws Experimental Accuracy Out the Window?

Jun 23, 2008

Like many who regularly use GenBank, Sandra Porter wonders how accurate and up to date the information in there is. It's not a curated database, she says, but a "library of archival information" that contains a lot of outdated -- and wrong -- sequence information. At Sandwalk, Larry Moran has been bugged by this issue for two decades, mostly because it's such a big one for the community. "This is a serious problem. Most people don't realize that GenBank is full of sequences that are known to be incorrect and/or poorly annotated."

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