Question

Investigators are encouraged to submit their newly obtained sequences directly to a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, such as the NCBI, DDBJ, and EMBL.

(a) True

(b) False

I got this question during an internship interview.

This intriguing question comes from Sequencing cDNA Libraries of Expressed Genes, Submission of Sequences to the Databases topic in portion Collecting & Storing Sequences in Laboratory of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) True

To explain I would say: NCBI stands for National Center for Biotechnology Information. It manages GenBank. DDBJ and EMBL stand for DNA Database Bank of Japan and European Molecular Biology Laboratory respectively.