Why so many entries in revision history at ncbi?

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The discussion centers on the revision history of sequences in the NCBI nucleotide database. Users observe multiple entries with the same version number but different update dates, leading to confusion about the nature of these revisions. It is clarified that these revisions often pertain to updates in annotations rather than changes in the sequence itself. Accessing the revision history involves navigating to the display settings after selecting an entry.

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Okay so I'm using ncbi and when using the nucleotide database, when I access the revision history of a result of any query, I get a lot of sequences. Surprisingly they all are of the same version. Why? If each is different shouldn't they have different version numbers? They all have different update dates yet all are the same thing (same version). Can someone explain them to me?

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How do you get to the revision history? I've never seen that. And couldn't the revisions be updates on the annotation and not on the sequence itself?
 
Accessing revision history is simple. After accessing an entry, you go to the top left side of the page and in display settings you select revision history and press ok.

And maybe you're right with regards to revisions being updates on the annotations. It does make sense. But I need to know definitely (no offence).
 

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