Question

Using the GenBank Records could someone please tell me what these 3 definition mean please? 1)Accession and Version 2)Source 3)Organism

Answer 1

organism- 1. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
2. The material structure of such an individual.
source-
A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained.
Verb:
Obtain from a particular source: "each type of coffee is sourced from one country".
accession-The attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, typically that of monarch or president.
Verb:
Record the addition of (a new item) to a library, museum, or other collection.

version-A particular form of something differing in certain respects from an earlier form or other forms of the same type of thing.
Verb:
Create a new version of: "it's the software for you if you need versioning and group editing".

Answer 2

@bekah2297, GenBank is a bioinformatics resource. It contains DNA sequence data.

Accession and version are the index of the sequence you are looking for. The accession number is how you find a sequence of interest; the version refers to which particularly sequencing run on the DNA, as some genes/non-coding regions have been sequenced more than once, from different individuals, and some are slightly different.

Source refers to which project, lab or group sequenced the gene of interest.

Organism refers to what organism the sequence is from.

The last two are pretty evident.

Answer 3

just trying to help.

Answer 4

There is a more detailed description of what those are and how to use them at the GenBank site itself: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/.

Answer 5

blues!!!

Answer 6

thanks a lot guys really appreciate it