A Submission comprises different types of objects. The objects are retrievable as a group which can be easily referred to in the literature. Annotation Object GDB staff and users having GDB accounts may add annotations to objects in the main classes. Some objects have attributes whose values must be selected from controlled lists. New objects will be assigned accession numbers which the submitters may reference in publications or other databases.
Individuals can also add elements to maps and annotate other objects.
Every object in the database has a unique accession number and an owner, who has editing privileges on that object. An owner may be an individual or a group. Registered GDB users may add new objects or update objects they own. Publicly Editable Maps GDB stores publicly editable cytogenetic maps which are curated by the HUGO chromosome committees. Any registered user may add map elements to these maps.