Editing GenBank (section)

==Submissions==
Only original sequences can be submitted to GenBank. Direct submissions are made to GenBank using BankIt, which is a Web-based form, or the stand-alone submission program, table2asn. Upon receipt of a sequence submission, the GenBank staff examines the originality of the data and assigns an [[Accession number (bioinformatics)|accession number]] to the sequence and performs quality assurance checks. The submissions are then released to the public database, where the entries are retrievable by [[Entrez]] or downloadable by [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]]. Bulk submissions of [[Expressed Sequence Tag]] (EST), [[Sequence-tagged site]] (STS), [[Genome survey sequence|Genome Survey Sequence]] (GSS), and [[High-Throughput Genome Sequence]] (HTGS) data are most often submitted by large-scale sequencing centers. The GenBank direct submissions group also processes complete microbial genome sequences.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How to submit data to GenBank |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/submit/ |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=NCBI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=GenBank Submission Types |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/submit_types/ |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=NCBI}}</ref>