What is different about HIV Database accession entries and GenBank entries?
Only the author (or owner) of an entry can update or modify the GenBank entry. Our database includes fields and comments that we add ourselves in GenBank-style entries. The fields we add are usually not reviewed by the authors. For example, we might add the health status of the patient, the date of sampling, the patient risk group, the phenotype of a viral culture from which a sequence is derived, subtype information, or additional references to a specific sequence entry. These added comments and fields come from our reading of the literature or analysis. Often, GenBank entries are not updated by their authors after the initial submission, but subsequent publications provide new and important information that pertains to a particular sequence, and we try to link this information.
