

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.