One thing that we do with bioinformatics student research projects is to provide the tools so that data quality can be measured in an objective manner. Those tools allow us to evaluate the quality of student work and feel good about submitting the final results of that work to public databases.

We are collaborating on a bioinformatics project where students clone and sequencing novel genes. If you want to see what we're doing, you can go here, get the log-in info, and try it out.