DNA Data Bank of Japan: 30th anniversary.

Yuichi Kodama,Jun Mashima,Osamu Ogasawara,Yasukazu Nakamura,Eli Kaminuma,Toshihisa Takagi,Kousaku Okubo,Takehide Kosuge

doi:10.1093/nar/gkx926

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Journal: Nucleic Acids Research	Publication Date: Oct 10, 2017
Citations: 53	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: National Institute of Genetics

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The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) Center (http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp) has been providing public data services for 30 years since 1987. We are collecting nucleotide sequence data and associated biological information from researchers as a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC), in collaboration with the US National Center for Biotechnology Information and the European Bioinformatics Institute. The DDBJ Center also services the Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive (JGA) with the National Bioscience Database Center to collect genotype and phenotype data of human individuals. Here, we outline our database activities for INSDC and JGA over the past year, and introduce submission, retrieval and analysis services running on our supercomputer system and their recent developments. Furthermore, we highlight our responses to the amended Japanese rules for the protection of personal information and the launch of the DDBJ Group Cloud service for sharing pre-publication data among research groups.

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The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ, http://www.ddbj. nig.ac.jp) [1] is a public database of nucleotide sequences established at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG, https: //www.nig.ac.jp/nig)
Since 1987, the DDBJ has been collecting annotated nucleotide sequences as its traditional database service and we held the NIG international symposium commemorating its 30th anniversary in May 2017
The Japan Patent Office and the Korean Intellectual Property Office contribute sequences from published patent applications. This endeavor has been conducted in collaboration with GenBank [2] at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and with the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) [3] at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

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In addition to these unrestricted-access databases, the DDBJ Center services a controlled-access database, the Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive Ddbj.nig.ac.jp/jga), in collaboration with the National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC, https://biosciencedbc.jp/ en) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency [1, 8]. Our web services, including submission systems, data retrieval and analytical systems and backend databases, are performed on the NIG supercomputer system.

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