I have always left the submission of sequences to NCBI to the very last minute, i.e. just before submitting a manuscript for review and on occasion, I have left it until I have known that the paper is accepted. In your opinion when is the best time to submit? As soon as you have quality checked the sequences? Once the manuscript is ready for submission? After the manuscript has been accepted?
It would be great to get a general feel of when people tend to submit there sequences.
This is interesting, I don't (or rather haven't yet) submitted sequence data to NCBI or EBI, but I have submitted to ArrayExpress and GEO. When I do this we just put a release date on the data in the future, generate a private reviewer URL or access for the reviewers and submit the paper. The reviewers can see the data is annotated and deposited, and it's released on publication.
So why isn't this the same for sequence data?
But is there any advantage to releasing your data before you have even submitted a manuscript?