title: DNA Data Bank of Japan in the age of information biology.
abstract: DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) began its activities in 1986 in collaboration with EMBL in Europe and GenBank in the United States. DDBJ developed a data submission tool called Sakura, by which researchers can submit their newly sequenced data on WWW from every corner of the world. The data bank also built a database management system (Yamato II), incorporating the techniques and functions of the object-oriented database, in order to efficiently process the data it has collected. A number of research activities in information biology are also going on at DDBJ. Two such activities are also briefly introduced in this report.
authors.affiliation: Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Yata, Mishima 411, Japan. ytateno@genes.nig.ac.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tateno
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gojobori
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003625:Data Collection; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D012984:Software