Table 2 Summary of assessment of annotations.

From: Assessing the reliability of medicinal Dendrobium sequences in GenBank for botanical species identification

Number of Dendrobium species

41

Total number of accessions evaluated

2041

Number of accessions

With voucher specimen in GenBank

1083 (53.06%)

With country specified in GenBank

645 (31.60%)

With collector/determinator specified in GenBank

98 (4.80%)

With additional information on voucher specimen in publication

178 (8.72%)

With additional information on country in publication

579 (28.37%)

With additional information on collector/determinator in publication

272 (13.33%)

Annotated as published in GenBank

1030 (50.47%)

Published but not annotated as so in GenBank

222 (10.88%)

Annotated as published in GenBank but could not be explicitly found in the annotated publication

41 (2.01%)

Of which voucher specimen number in GenBank record is not the same as the number in publication

8 (0.39%)