DDBJ :- 'DNA Data Bank Of Japan' is a biological database which collects DNA sequences and located at the National institute of Genetics (NIG) is the Shizuoka prefecture of Japan. It is also a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. It exchanges its data with European Molecular Biology Laboratory at the European Bioinformatics Institute and with GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology Information on a daily basis.
URL- http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
History of DDBJ :-
DDBJ began data bank activities in 1986 at NIG and remains the only nucleotide sequence data bank in Asia. Although DDBJ mainly receives its data from Japanese researchers, it can accept data from contributors from any other country. DDBJ is primarily funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
Information of DDBJ :-
DDBJ has an international advisory committee which consists of nine members, 3 members each from Europe, US, and Japan. This committee advises 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.
Primary databases (also known as data repositories) are highly organized, user-friendly gateways to the huge amount of biological data produced by researchers around the world.
The primary databases were first developed for the storage of experimentally determined DNA and protein sequences in the 1980s and 90s. In those times, proteins were sequenced one amino acid at a time and DNA sequencing was in its infancy, so repositories contained a limited number of sequences. However, with the arrival of automatic DNA sequencing, these data banks started to grow exponentially.
Nowadays, sequence submissions are made by individual laboratories, as well as “in bulk” by sequencing centers around the world, and DNA submissions now greatly outnumber protein sequence submissions. Most protein sequences found in databases are the product of conceptual translation of the genes and genomes determined using DNA sequencing.
Home page of DDBJ
The GenBank format allows for the storage of information in addition to a DNA/protein sequence. It holds much more information than the FASTA format. Formats similar to GenBank have been developed by ENA (EMBL format) and by DDBJ (DDBJ format).
About DDBJ center :-
- Mission
- Governing structure
- Major activities
1) Mission - It is generally accepted that research in biology today requires both computer and experimental equipment equally well. Information achieved from enormous exhaustive data have greatly contributed to the paradigm shift in biology. Biology or life sciences are no longer restricted to wet-bench experiments. In silico and in vitro / in vivo analyses together will push back the frontiers of life sciences.
The principal purpose of DDBJ operations is to improve the quality of INSD, as public domains. When researchers make their data open to the public through INSD and commonly shared in world wide, we at DDBJ Center make efforts to describe information on the data as rich as possible, according to the unified rules of INSD, preferably without any stress by using DDBJ.
2) Governing structure - Currently, DDBJ Center is in operation at Research Organization of Information and System National Institute of Genetics(NIG) in Mishima, Japan with endorsement of MEXT; Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. DBJ Center is reviewed and advised by its own advisory board, DNA Database Advisory Committee (an outside committee of NIG), and also by the advisory board to INSDC, International Advisory Committee.
3) Major activities -
- Construction and Operation of INSDC
- Management and operation of the National institute of Genetics Supercomputer System
- Providing services to search and to analyze biological data
- Training course and publications
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