Is anyone else frustrated with being able to retrieve SRA submitted sequences?
Every time a paper comes out it seems like the SRA annotation is incomplete. There's no way to know which SRA ID # corresponds to which data set is mentioned in the paper (is it replicate 1? replicate 2? Illumina? SOLID? is it whole genome? is it whole exome enrichment?).
Is there problem with the submission form or process that makes it difficult? or are authors just being a little quick and careless?
I just don't understand why the process of retrieving sequence data has to be a sherlock holmes case every time. I have to write to the corresponding author, then track down the one author who is responsible, sometimes going back and forth between authors, then wait for he/she to sort it out.
This is not just one isolated case, but 5 times already.
My concern is that in two to three years there will be hundreds (or thousands) of publications with SRA entries, and it would be impossible to figure out which data set is which.
Are the microarray datasets also as difficult? Might we learn some lessons from microarray submissions?
Every time a paper comes out it seems like the SRA annotation is incomplete. There's no way to know which SRA ID # corresponds to which data set is mentioned in the paper (is it replicate 1? replicate 2? Illumina? SOLID? is it whole genome? is it whole exome enrichment?).
Is there problem with the submission form or process that makes it difficult? or are authors just being a little quick and careless?
I just don't understand why the process of retrieving sequence data has to be a sherlock holmes case every time. I have to write to the corresponding author, then track down the one author who is responsible, sometimes going back and forth between authors, then wait for he/she to sort it out.
This is not just one isolated case, but 5 times already.
My concern is that in two to three years there will be hundreds (or thousands) of publications with SRA entries, and it would be impossible to figure out which data set is which.
Are the microarray datasets also as difficult? Might we learn some lessons from microarray submissions?
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