DNA Data Bank of Japan

The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) is a biological

DNA Data Bank of Japan
database that collects DNA sequences.[1][2] It is located at
the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in the Shizuoka
prefecture of Japan. It is also a member of the International Content
Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration or INSDC. It
exchanges its data with European Molecular Biology Description Japanese DNA data
Laboratory at the European Bioinformatics Institute and bank
with GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology Organisms all
Information on a daily basis. Thus these three databanks
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contain the same data at any given time.
Research center International Nucleotide
Sequence Database
History Collaboration
National Institute of
DDBJ began data bank activities in 1987[3] at NIG and
Genetics
remains the only nucleotide sequence data bank in Asia.[4]
Laboratory Center for Information
Biology and DNA Data
Organisation Bank of Japan

Although DDBJ mainly receives its data from Japanese Primary citation PMID 11752245 (http
researchers, it can accept data from contributors from any s://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.ni
other country. DDBJ is primarily funded by the Japanese h.gov/11752245)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Release date 1986
Technology (MEXT). DDBJ has an international advisory
committee which consists of nine members, 3 members Access
each from Europe, US, and Japan. This committee advises Website http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp
DDBJ about its maintenance, management and future plans
once a year. Apart from this, DDBJ also has an international collaborative committee which advises on
various technical issues related to international collaboration and consists of working-level participants.

See also
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

References
1. Tateno Y, Imanishi T, Miyazaki S, Fukami-Kobayashi K, Saitou N, Sugawara H, et al. (2002).
"DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) for genome scale research in life science" (https://www.nc
bi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC99140). Nucleic Acids Res. 30 (1): 27–30.
doi:10.1093/nar/30.1.27 (https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fnar%2F30.1.27). PMC 99140 (https://w
ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC99140). PMID 11752245 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.ni
h.gov/11752245).
2. Kaminuma E, Kosuge T, Kodama Y, et al. (January 2011). "DDBJ progress report" (https://w
ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013661). Nucleic Acids Res. 39 (Database issue):
 D22–7. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1041 (https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fnar%2Fgkq1041).
PMC 3013661 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013661). PMID 21062814
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21062814).
3. Tateno, Y.; Gojobori, T. (1 January 1997). "DNA Data Bank of Japan in the age of information
biology" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC146410). Nucleic Acids Research.
25 (1): 14–17. doi:10.1093/nar/25.1.14 (https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fnar%2F25.1.14).
PMC 146410 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC146410). PMID 9016494 (http
s://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9016494).
4. Sagar Aryal Nucleotide sequences database (https://microbenotes.com/nucleotide-sequenc
es-database/) 22 February 2019 microbenotes.com accessed 26 March 2021

External links
Official site (http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/)
DDBJ (https://web.archive.org/web/20081119154608/http://biodatabase.org/index.php/DDB
J_-_DNA_Data_Bank_of_Japan) entry in MetaBase.

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