<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>A survey of Genbank entries for complete microbial genomes reveals that the majority do
not conform to the Genbank standard. Typical deviations from the Genbank standard
include records with information in incorrect fields, addition of extraneous and confusing
information within a field, and omission of useful fields. This situation results from two
principal causes: genome centres do not submit Genbank records in the proper form and
the Genbank, EMBL and DDBJ staffs do not enforce the database standards that they
have defined.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2001 Feb; 2(1):25-27