Preventing Duplicate Sequences

[Jud McCranie]

At 04:27 PM 5/9/2003, Rick Shepherd wrote:

>The big question is:  Should there be an automated check at the time we
>submit new sequences to issue a warning (to the submitter and would-be
>updater) if an identical sequence (or nearly so) is already in the database?


It probably isn't too hard to check for duplicates throughout the whole 
database and report ones whose terms match.  Then a person would have to 
look at the descriptions to determine if they are the same.