If you have not included organism names in your nucleotide FASTA definition lines, BankIt can accept organism names for multiple sequences in two ways: as a tab-delimited text file (as described below) or by applying the same organism to all sequences in the set using the web input form.
To apply the same organism name (for example, in a population set) input the name in the 'Name' field on the 'Organism and Source Modifiers' page. A prompt in that field will display our most common organism names based on your input; this is NOT an exhaustive list. Unique descriptive information (such as strains, isolates, clones, or specimen vouchers) can then be provided in a Source Modifier table.
To provide different organism names, a two-column, tab-delimited table containing the Sequence_ID and organism name for every sequence in the submission is used.
The first row in the table contains the headers for each column: Sequence_ID and Organism, which must be verbatim, as in the example table below.
The first column contains the Sequence_IDs used to identify each sequence in the nucleotide FASTA file.
The second column contains the name of the organism from which the corresponding sequence was isolated.
Each sequence in the set must have a line in the Organism table.
Each Sequence_ID may appear only once in the Organism table.
| Sequence_ID | Organism |
| Seq1 | Carpodacus mexicanus |
| Seq2 | Uncultured Bacillus sp. |
| Seq3 | Phalaenopsis equestris var. leucaspis |
| Seq4 | Uncultured Archaeon |
| Seq5 | Influenza A virus |
| Seq6 | Vireo gilvus |
| Seq7 | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos |
| Seq8 | Hippodamia tredecimpunctata tibialis |
| Seq9 | Petunia integrifolia subsp. inflata |
| Seq10 | Fusarium oxysporum f. tuberosi |
| Seq11 | Dendroica tigrina |
Sample Organism Table (right-click to save) as a tab-delimited text file.
When using a spreadsheet program, be sure to save your file as tab-delimited text. If you are not sure that the "Save" option in your program will do this for you, use "Save As..."
In Excel, select "Save As..." from the File menu. In the "Save as type:" pull-down menu, select "Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt)."