GenBank & Taxonomical Nomenclature/identification

[Peter Rauch]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Scott Federhen wrote:
> We can't really require that submitters provice these data,
> though.  In practice, if we did require submitters to give us a
> voucher with every entry I think that we would get a lot of
> incorrect information information from submitters who don't
> understand what voucher specimens are.

Now, if that isn't the revelation of the year, what is?!

Perhaps _requiring_ a voucher for every entry isn't practical for
other reasons, but frankly, to accept data from folks who don't
understand what vouchers are, sounds like a bomb ticking, or an
ostrich seeing nothing but sand.

Is that really the reason you don't require vouchers?

Peter