Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Quality of submitted data Message-ID: Date: 15 Aug 90 17:05:12 GMT References: <1990Aug15.175713.17794@phri.nyu.edu> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 28 Ellen, There is no implication in my last message that reviewers should type in the data as part of their routine, although as Roy suggested it might eventually become a standard practice for reviewers to request an electronic copy of the data. How do you think an author might respond right now if as part of your comments you requested a disk of the sequence data for review purposes beforing reaching a decision on the paper? The point I made is simply that this data entry hurdle quite often stands in the way of a thorough review. Given the size of this hurdle, in addition to the not uncommon problem of people sitting on papers and then hurriedly going through them after the editors start bugging them for return of the manuscript, no one should assume that the integrity of the database can be assured by typical reviews alone without experimental verification by other labs. This should come as a surprise to no one. I am encouraged by your thoughtfulness, however. Perhaps you might be interested in contacting Paul about the GenBank curator program?! -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank On-line Service Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net