DDBJ in the stream of various biological data.
In the past year we at DDBJ (http://www.ddbj.nig. ac.jp) have made a steady increase in the number of data submissions with a 50.6% increment in the number of bases or 46.5% increment in the number of entries. Among them the genome data of man, ascidian and rice hold the top three. Our activity has extended to providing a tool that enables sequence retrieval using regular expressions, and to launching our SOAP server and web services to facilitate the acquisition of proper data and tools from a huge number of biological data resources on websites worldwide. We have also opened our public gene expression database, CIBEX.
Miyazaki
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Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Yata, Mishima 411-8540, Japan.
Sugawara
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Ikeo
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Gojobori
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Tateno
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D000818:Animals; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D007564:Japan; D012984:Software