DNA Data Bank of Japan
{{Short description|DNA sequence database}}
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The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) is a biological database that collects DNA sequences.{{cite journal| vauthors=Tateno Y, Imanishi T, Miyazaki S, Fukami-Kobayashi K, Saitou N, Sugawara H| title=DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) for genome scale research in life science. | journal=Nucleic Acids Res | year= 2002 | volume= 30 | issue= 1 | pages= 27–30 | pmid=11752245 | pmc=99140 | doi=10.1093/nar/30.1.27|display-authors=etal}}{{cite journal |vauthors=Kaminuma E, Kosuge T, Kodama Y |title=DDBJ progress report |journal=Nucleic Acids Res. |volume=39 |issue=Database issue |pages=D22–7 |date=January 2011 |pmid=21062814 |pmc=3013661 |doi=10.1093/nar/gkq1041 |display-authors=etal}} It is located at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in the Shizuoka prefecture of Japan. It is also a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration or INSDC. 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. Thus these three databanks contain the same data at any given time.
History
DDBJ began data bank activities in 1987{{cite journal |last1=Tateno |first1=Y. |last2=Gojobori |first2=T. |title=DNA Data Bank of Japan in the age of information biology |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |date=1 January 1997 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=14–17 |doi=10.1093/nar/25.1.14 |pmid=9016494 |pmc=146410 }} at NIG and remains the only nucleotide sequence data bank in Asia.{{cite web|last=Tamang| first=Sanju |editor-last=Aryal |editor-first=Sagar |title=Nucleotide Databases- Definition, Types, Examples, Uses |url=https://microbenotes.com/nucleotide-sequences-database/|date=22 February 2019 |website=microbenotes.com|access-date= 26 March 2021}}
Organisation
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). 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.{{cn|date=April 2023}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ Official site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081119154608/http://biodatabase.org/index.php/DDBJ_-_DNA_Data_Bank_of_Japan DDBJ] entry in MetaBase.
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