Sequin submission tool

The Local sequence identifier is most prominently used in the data submission tool Sequin (see Chapter 4). Each sequence will eventually get an accession, version identifier and a gi number, but only when the completed submission has been processed by one of the public databases. During the submission process, Sequin assigns a local identifier to each sequence. Because many of the software tools made by NCBl require a sequence identifier, having a local Seq-id allows the use of these tools without having to first submit data to a public database. 

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