All samples should be accompanied by the following information: name, address, telephone/fax numbers of sender; telephone/fax numbers for official reporting of results, if different from above; name, address and contact numbers of owner; date of sampling and submission; type and number of samples (including whether on ice, preserved, etc).; disease suspected and tests required.
These programs are not always available and submission dates must be strictly adhered to.
Major efforts are being done to keep the content of the databases up to date and direct submissions are encouraged to also include unpublished variants.
For each entry, network curator information is recorded, including submitter and submission date.
Check the NSF website (www.nsf.gov) for current submission dates and guidelines; we anticipate some changes in the near future.
Anonymous summary data were sought for all individuals, comprising age, gender, ethnicity, country of birth, mode of HIV acquisition, whether registered with a general practitioner (GP), whether there was a record of the person having attended clinic at least once during each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 up to the date of submission, and patient location (in or outside UK) in 2011.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Culleton said he had "no idea what is going on" in the case, which will begin with a directions hearing on Monday to set the next steps including dates for submissions and a full hearing.
Geographical coordinates (longitude/latitude), date of submission and ownership were obtained for each site.
The system logs the location of the respondent computer (IP address) as well as the time and date of submission.
We also recommend that strains uploaded to GenBank be accompanied, at least, by information about time (date of diagnosis or disease onset rather than by date of submission) and space (country where infection most likely was acquired rather than country from which infection was reported).
