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I submitted a cDNA sequence but notice it appears in the database as an mRNA sequence, why is this?

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I submitted a cDNA sequence but notice it appears in the database as an mRNA sequence, why is this?

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Sequences are presented in the database in the form corresponding to the biological state of the information in vivo. Thus, cDNA sequence are stored in the database as RNA sequences, even though they usually appear in the literature as DNA.