Date added field about fauna HOT 7 CLOSED

I think a vdb_date_added field would definitely be helpful and rather easy to implement. This would help in trying to find viruses that were all uploaded at the same time. I'm not sure about thegenbank_date_added field, most viruses should have a collection date associated with them which is what we would end up using. Although in the case of KU740184, where collection date is just 2015, could we use genbank_date_added as an estimate of collection date?

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In the case of KU740184, we can see that it was uploaded to Genbank on 22-FEB-2016. This can be easily retrieved, but I'm not sure if it's useful. The upload date to Genbank is obviously different from the collection date. I think collection date is the primary date field of interested and can stay as date.

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Knowing when things were added to the database and to GenBank are useful for troubleshooting later on. Have you thought about adding sequence versioning too?

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I don't know if sequence versioning is a bridge too far or completely appropriate.

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You're thinking constant data curation so that the database is up to speed at all times?

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Looks like some nice progress in c58c137. Should this issue be closed?

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Yes I think so

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