Just thought I'd let you know that my mtDNA FGS was published at GenBank yesterday. The GenBank accession number for my sequence is HM034770.1.
As Peiternella has said, your GenBank sequence submission does not have to identify you by name in their database. Things can be kept private. That said, I chose to associate my name with my sequence.
GenBank is reluctant to publish the submitter's name as a co-author because of the potential for unforeseen, future negative consequences of making your coding region public. Once the submitter associates his or her name with their sequence by listing themselves as a co-author, the information is in the public domain and privacy can never be restored. This is true even if the sequence is removed from GenBank, because once it goes into GenBank, other databases and researchers download it and there is no trail of who has it or where it has gone. Having said that, I still chose to list my name as a co-author for my sequence. I guess I'm just 'a risk taker' and figured that there might be unforeseen future benefits of doing so as well as unforeseen future dangers.
There are no 100% matches to me in the GenBank database. Using BLAST (http://preview.tinyurl.com/ykv7frm) I found that the closest to me is EU151553.1 which matches me 16562 out of 16569 positions.
BTW Peiternella, I assume that when you wrote 'GenaBank' in the first line it was just a typo because you used 'GenBank' after that.
My sequence was published by GenBank on April 4th (HM034770.1). It has been public ever since. My GI number is: 292597332. You can see my sequence here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/292597332?report=genbank
You will see my name listed as a co-author: " Erbland, M.J."
If you enter a BLAST Acsession number in the first box, and click "BLAST", you will get a list of the GenBank sequences that most closely match the one you've entered. The rCRS (NC_012920.1) sequence is shown in the first box by default. If you click the "Align two or more sequences" check box, then another box will appear where you can enter GenBank Accession numbers. If you enter "NC_012920.1" (rCRS) in the first box and your own GenBank Accession number in the second box, and click "BLAST" you will get a comparison of your sequence to rCRS.
At the top of the comparison page you will see a line that says "Query ID". Your Genbank Ascension number will be at the right end of that line. Click on it and you will see the details for your sequence as submitted, including your GI number.
Hi - I entered my FGS into Genebank on 2 March - succession # is GU945760. FTDNA has me as H11. PhyloTree as H11a (perhaps H11a1). No close matches thus far.
Mardon Erbland
As Peiternella has said, your GenBank sequence submission does not have to identify you by name in their database. Things can be kept private. That said, I chose to associate my name with my sequence.
GenBank is reluctant to publish the submitter's name as a co-author because of the potential for unforeseen, future negative consequences of making your coding region public. Once the submitter associates his or her name with their sequence by listing themselves as a co-author, the information is in the public domain and privacy can never be restored. This is true even if the sequence is removed from GenBank, because once it goes into GenBank, other databases and researchers download it and there is no trail of who has it or where it has gone. Having said that, I still chose to list my name as a co-author for my sequence. I guess I'm just 'a risk taker' and figured that there might be unforeseen future benefits of doing so as well as unforeseen future dangers.
My sequence can be seen here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/292597332?report=genbank
There are no 100% matches to me in the GenBank database. Using BLAST (http://preview.tinyurl.com/ykv7frm) I found that the closest to me is EU151553.1 which matches me 16562 out of 16569 positions.
BTW Peiternella, I assume that when you wrote 'GenaBank' in the first line it was just a typo because you used 'GenBank' after that.
Apr 4, 2010
Mardon Erbland
My sequence was published by GenBank on April 4th (HM034770.1). It has been public ever since. My GI number is: 292597332. You can see my sequence here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/292597332?report=genbank
You will see my name listed as a co-author: " Erbland, M.J."
I find BLAST very easy to use. I start with the BLAST search page at:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ykv7frm
If you enter a BLAST Acsession number in the first box, and click "BLAST", you will get a list of the GenBank sequences that most closely match the one you've entered. The rCRS (NC_012920.1) sequence is shown in the first box by default. If you click the "Align two or more sequences" check box, then another box will appear where you can enter GenBank Accession numbers. If you enter "NC_012920.1" (rCRS) in the first box and your own GenBank Accession number in the second box, and click "BLAST" you will get a comparison of your sequence to rCRS.
At the top of the comparison page you will see a line that says "Query ID". Your Genbank Ascension number will be at the right end of that line. Click on it and you will see the details for your sequence as submitted, including your GI number.
Hope this helps, Mardon
Apr 14, 2010
Kay Fordham
Regards, Kay Fordham
May 10, 2010