@idbdeb@BISS_Journal All of the above 🤦🏻since I tweeted this, someone emailed me an example of some 13 redundant occurrence samples in GBIF because GenBank (and EMBL) records and their vouchers were found. There’s currently over 2.2 Billion (yes Billion) occurrences in GBIF. How many are redundant?
Specimen Identifiers: Linking tissues, DNA samples, and sequence data to voucher specimens in publicly accessible databases https://t.co/UFPhIldvlM via @BISS_Journal