DNA Data Bank of Japan

Content
Description	Japanese DNA data bank
Organisms	all
Contact
Research center	International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration National Institute of Genetics
Laboratory	Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan
Primary citation	PMID 11752245
Release date	1986
Access
Website	http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp

The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) is a biological database that collects DNA sequences.^[1][2] It is located at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in the Shizuoka prefecture of Japan. It is also a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration or INSDC. It exchanges its data with European Molecular Biology Laboratory at the European Bioinformatics Institute and with GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology Information on a daily basis. Thus these three databanks contain the same data at any given time.

History

DDBJ began data bank activities in 1987^[3] at NIG and remains the only nucleotide sequence data bank in Asia.^[4]

Organisation

Although DDBJ mainly receives its data from Japanese researchers, it can accept data from contributors from any other country. DDBJ is primarily funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). DDBJ has an international advisory committee which consists of nine members, 3 members each from Europe, US, and Japan. This committee advises DDBJ about its maintenance, management and future plans once a year. Apart from this, DDBJ also has an international collaborative committee which advises on various technical issues related to international collaboration and consists of working-level participants.^{[citation needed]}