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Takeshi Ara1, Yuichi Kodama1, Toshiaki Tokimatsu1
1Bioinformation and DDBJ Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
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The Bioinformation and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) Center (https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp) provides database archives that cover a wide range of fields in life sciences. As a founding member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC), DDBJ accepts and distributes nucleotide sequence data as well as their study and sample information along with the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the United States and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Besides INSDC databases, the DDBJ Center provides databases for functional genomics (GEA: Genomic Expression Archive), metabolomics (MetaboBank) and human genetic and phenotypic data (JGA: Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive). These database systems have been built on the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) supercomputer, which is also open for domestic life science researchers to analyze large-scale sequence data. This paper reports recent updates on the archival databases and the services of the DDBJ Center, highlighting the newly redesigned MetaboBank. MetaboBank uses BioProject and BioSample in its metadata description making it suitable for multi-omics large studies. Its collaboration with MetaboLights at EBI brings synergy in locating and reusing public data.
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