Abstract
The rapidly growing set of GenBank submissions includes sequences that are derived from vouchered specimens. These are associated with culture collections, museums, herbaria and other natural history collections, both living and preserved. Correct identification of the specimens studied, along with a method to associate the sample with its institution, is critical to the outcome of related studies and analyses. The National Center for Biotechnology Information BioCollections Database was established to allow the association of specimen vouchers and related sequence records to their home institutions. This process also allows cross-linking from the home institution for quick identification of all records originating from each collection. Database URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biocollections
Highlights
The BioCollections Database is a curated dataset of metadata for culture collections, museums, herbaria and other natural history collections connected to sequence records in GenBank
Biocollection institution codes are unique across multiple types of collections and the database is used to support the ‘structured voucher’ annotation in the sequence entries submitted to International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) [1]
The data were imported from Index Herbariorum [6], World Federation for Culture Collections, Insect and Spider Collections of the World, Amphibian Species of the World (AMNH) [7] and the Catalog of Fishes [8]
Summary
The BioCollections Database is a curated dataset of metadata for culture collections, museums, herbaria and other natural history collections connected to sequence records in GenBank. Biocollection institution codes are unique across multiple types of collections and the database is used to support the ‘structured voucher’ annotation in the sequence entries submitted to International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) [1]. The institution codes that are listed in the BioCollections Database appear as ‘structured voucher’ in GenBank records.
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