title: DNA data bank of Japan (DDBJ) progress report.
abstract: The DNA Data Bank of Japan Center (DDBJ Center; http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp) maintains and provides public archival, retrieval and analytical services for biological information. The contents of the DDBJ databases are shared with the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) within the framework of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC). Since 2013, the DDBJ Center has been operating the Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive (JGA) in collaboration with the National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) in Japan. In addition, the DDBJ Center develops semantic web technologies for data integration and sharing in collaboration with the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) in Japan. This paper briefly reports on the activities of the DDBJ Center over the past year including submissions to databases and improvements in our services for data retrieval, analysis, and integration.
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan tt@nig.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mashima
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7691-9812
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Takehide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kosuge
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Takatomo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujisawa
authors.affiliation: Database Center for Life Science, Chiba 277-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagasaki
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okuda
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kaminuma
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ogasawara
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Kousaku
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okubo
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasukazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.affiliation: DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan National Bioscience Database Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-8666, Japan tt@nig.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Toshihisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takagi
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D003201:Computers; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005838:Genotype; D010641:Phenotype; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA