DDBJ
http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp
DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan) began DNA data bank
activities in earnest in 1986 at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) with the endorsement of the
Ministry of Education, Science, Sport and Culture. From the beginning, DDBJ
has been functioning as one of the International DNA Databases,
including EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute; responsible for the EMBL
database) in
Europe and NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information; responsible
for GenBank database) in the USA as the two other members. Consequently,
we have been collaborating with the two data banks through exchanging data and
information on Internet and by regularly holding two meetings,
the International DNA Data Banks Advisory Meeting and the International DNA Data Banks Collaborative
Meeting.