DNA Data Bank of Japan

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	1786
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.

^ Tateno Y, Imanishi T, Miyazaki S, Fukami-Kobayashi K, Saitou N, Sugawara H, et al. (2002). "DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) for genome scale research in life science". Nucleic Acids Res. 30 (1): 27–30. doi:10.1093/nar/30.1.27. PMC 99140. PMID 11752245.
^ Kaminuma E, Kosuge T, Kodama Y, et al. (January 2011). "DDBJ progress report". Nucleic Acids Res. 39 (Database issue): D22–7. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1041. PMC 3013661. PMID 21062814.