Reply to Locatelli et al.: Evaluating species-level accuracy of GenBank metazoan sequences will require experts' effort in each group

Affiliations

¹ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Panama City 0843-03092, Republic of Panama.
² National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560; knowlton@si.edu ryujimachida@gmail.com.
³ Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115-29, Taiwan.
⁴ National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560.
⁵ Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115-29, Taiwan knowlton@si.edu ryujimachida@gmail.com.

Comment

Matthieu Leray et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020.

. 2020 Dec 22;117(51):32213-32214.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2019903117. Epub 2020 Nov 24.

¹ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Panama City 0843-03092, Republic of Panama.
² National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560; knowlton@si.edu ryujimachida@gmail.com.
³ Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115-29, Taiwan.
⁴ National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560.
⁵ Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115-29, Taiwan knowlton@si.edu ryujimachida@gmail.com.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interest.

GenBank is a reliable resource for 21st century biodiversity research.
Leray M, Knowlton N, Ho SL, Nguyen BN, Machida RJ. Leray M, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Nov 5;116(45):22651-22656. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911714116. Epub 2019 Oct 21. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31636175 Free PMC article.
GenBank's reliability is uncertain for biodiversity researchers seeking species-level assignment for eDNA.
Locatelli NS, McIntyre PB, Therkildsen NO, Baetscher DS. Locatelli NS, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Dec 22;117(51):32211-32212. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2007421117. Epub 2020 Nov 24. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020. PMID: 33234565 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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