A frequent cause of failure on BioSample or SRA submission is the reuse of an user-defined accession number for a sample.
(Note these user-supplied sample numbers are mapped to BioSample accession numbers on submission.)
The accession numbers for samples must be unique so reuse for another submission causes NCBI submission errors quite late in the submission process.
Not clear if there is a way to ask NCBI if a number has been previously used by a particular user. The per user aspect is a major complicating factor since we do not know a user's NCBI credentials at any point in the submission process.
A frequent cause of failure on BioSample or SRA submission is the reuse of an user-defined accession number for a sample.
(Note these user-supplied sample numbers are mapped to BioSample accession numbers on submission.)
The accession numbers for samples must be unique so reuse for another submission causes NCBI submission errors quite late in the submission process.
Not clear if there is a way to ask NCBI if a number has been previously used by a particular user. The per user aspect is a major complicating factor since we do not know a user's NCBI credentials at any point in the submission process.
Builds on basic metadata validation (https://github.com/metadatacenter/cedar-template-editor/issues/779).