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No.46 (Dec.18,2009): at MBSJ2009/ Suspension of the DDBJ activity during the New Year Holidays/ Release of sequence data from DDBJ/ Genome Information Broker (GIB) meets the Targeted Proteins Research Program (TPRP)/ Closing H-Inv DB mirror site/
No.44 & 45 (Nov 12,2009): New DDBJ Staffs started DDBJ activiti/ "DDBJ Read Archive (DRA)" and "DDBJ Trace Archive (DTA)" websites open!/ The Report for the 22nd International Collaborators Meeting/ Change of directory structure of anonymous FTP site: Made a new directory "tpa" and "dra", renamed "trace" to "dta"/ Release of sequence data from DDBJ/ DDBJ Rel. 79.0 and DAD Rel. 49.0 released/ A new alignment service (MAFFT API) was opened to the public from WABI/ Enhancement of GIB-V by adding host information/ The paper about WABI was published in NAR Web server issue/
No.42 & 43 (May 29,2009): Release of Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus by DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank Database/ New release and update of human and mouse MGA data used for a gene network analysis/ Release of sequence data from DDBJ/ Update: a database of re-annotated microbial genomes/ 8th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course was held in Kyoto/
No.41 (Jan.30,2009): SRS (Sequence Retrieval System) service terminated/ Release of sequence data from DDBJ/ DDBJ Rel. 76.0 and DAD Rel. 46.0 released/ Temporary suspension of DDBJ services for the system enhancement/
No.40 (Nov.10,2008): New function is added to ARSA/ Release of sequence data from DDBJ/ Exhibit the DDBJ booth in BMB 2008/ Termination of providing SRS (Sequence Retrieval System) services [Re-announcement]/ DDBJ Rel.75.0 and DAD Rel.45.0 released/ Update of databases related to the H-Invitational/ Exhibit the DDBJ booth in BioJapan 2008/
No.39 (Sep 4, 2008): Late-summer greeting The Report for the 21st International Collaborators Meeting/ DDBJ starts accepting Trace Archive data/ DDBJ starts providing Trace Archive data by FTP/ Termination of a part of DDBJ services/ DDBJ Rel. 74 Completed / Release of sequence data from DDBJ/ BLAST and PSI-BLAST upgraded / Apology for the defective results of CON entries in getentry/ Apology for the defect of some search results in getentry/
No.38 (June 27, 2008): The number of nucleotides released from INSD has reached 200 G bases/ The 21st International Collaborators Meeting at Mishima/ Release of sequence data from DDBJ/ Genome Standards Consortium created a new genome description guideline/ Apology for the defect of some search results in getentry/ Removal of some databases from ARSA/ Report of the 7th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics training course/
No.37 (April 13, 2008): The public open day/ DDBJ Released Korean Patent Data/ Change the DDBJ anonymous FTP/ Dr. Hideaki Sugawara received the WFCC award/ Release of sequence data from DDBJ/ DDBJ Rel. 73 Completed/ Update of the H-Invitationa related the databases/ The 7th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics seminer was held in Korea/ Retirement and leaving of DDBJ staff/ Errata for DDBJ Entries/
No.36 (March 4, 2008): Mt. Fuji / How to release millions of entries from DDBJ / DDBJ started RSS delivery service Release of new MASS sequence data by DDBJ DDBJ Rel. 72 Completed Report for DDBJ activicies in NAR/
No. 35 (December 27, 2007): Thank you for using DDBJ in 2007/ Revision of DDBJ flat file format: Deletion of E-mail address, phone and fax numbers/ ARSA 2nd Enhancement/ Change of the sequence search system linked with TXSearch/ Suspension of the DDBJ activity during the New Year Holidays ( 2008 )/ The 7th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course ( March, 2008 )/ Apology for releasing of defective files of human gut metagenome WGS data from anonymous FTP/
No. 34 (November 12, 2007): We have serial excitements/ DDBJ HP Renewal/ Release of new human gut metagenome WGS data, 353,805 entries/ DDBJ Rel.71 Completed/ DDBJ started new WEB service REST/ The distribution massive entries/ The Web page of "XML Central of DDBJ" is getting cool /
No. 33 (November 13, 2007): Beautiful season/ Great increase of the number of CON entries in DDBJ Rel.70:huge scale metagenome/
No. 32 (August 16, 2007): Watermelons' season/ Revision of DDBJ flat file format: Deletion of E-mail address, phone and fax numbers/ ARSA renewal !!/ The 19th International Collaborative Meeting were held at EBI/ Homology Search Services Upgraded/ The distribution of massive entries/ Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course/ The Medaka genome article was carried in Nature/ DDBJ release 70.0 was revised as 70.1 at July 24, 2007/ The 20th anniversary of DDBJ release/
No. 31 (May 22, 2007): The summer day/ New system/ The announcement of DDBJing short training course/ The distribution of massive entries/ Full-length cDNA sequening of brain-expressed gene of cynomolgus monkey in PLOS Biology/ The 6th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course/ Staff transfer/ System error/
No. 30 (Mar. 23, 2007): unsettled season/ URL change in DDBJ WWW services/ The release of GIB-V and GTPS/ Report for DDBJ activities/ ClustalW DOTSINOUTPUT option is available/ "16S rRNA" is newly added to DDBJ homology search databases/ BLAST and PSI-BLAST upgraded/ Distribution of massive sequence data/ DDBJ Rel. 68 Completed/ About the statistics of "Journal Ranking"
No. 29 (Dec. 21, 2006): The Variety of Camellia (Camellia japonica)/ The announcement of the 3rd DDBJing and PDBjing short training course/ Distribution of massive sequence data/ INSD-XML upgraded to ver 1.4/ Upgrading the computer system of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG)/ Illegal values were included in CONTIG lines within a part of ultra-contig and chromosome entries derived from Oryzias latipes (Japanese medaka) WGS data/ The report of the SPAM mail trouble/ Participation to / Suspension of the DDBJ activity during the New Year Holidays/
No. 28 (Oct. 16, 2006): Good season!!!/ Completion of DDBJ Release 67/ Redistribution of whole rice genome data (O.sativa ssp.japonica) with RAP annotation/ Release of new Porcine full length cDNA 10,000 entries/ The Report for The 19th International Collaborators Meeting/ New function of getentry in CONTIG entries search/ Failure in part of search services in the WWW getentry/
No. 27 (Aug. 28, 2006): The voice of the cicada/ Upgrade of Search and Analysis services/ ClustalW web screen lay-out change and new additional function / Distribution of massive sequence data / Change of searchable divisions in SRS / Termination of providing the Blast program on NIG supernig server / Conference on Information Biology / STAFF COLUMN /
No. 26 (Jun. 22, 2006): Do you enjoy the season? / Professor Gojobori was elected as one of the Foreign Honorary Members of AAAS / Whole genome data are available from GIB by FTP / Update of databases related to the H-Invitational / The distribution of massive entries / The 19th International Collaborative Meeting and International Advisors Meeting were held at NCBI / New Statistics; Journal Ranking Top 100 / DDBJ Rel. 65 Completed / Errata at DDBJ service / DDBJ staff Column: At the 20th Anniversary of DDBJ
No. 25 (Apr. 18, 2006): Life without flowers is just totally pointless. / The announcement of DDBJing short training course / New functions were added to "getentry" web server / Functional improvement of BLAST at web server / The distribution of massive entries / General Terms and Disclaimers for DDBJ users / The report of Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course / Termination of the "S&W SEARCH" service / Termination of DDBJ/CIB Human Genomics Studio by DDBJ / ERRATA Page
No. 24 (Mar. 3, 2006): Full-blown Cherry Blossom will be coming soon !! / 14th DDBJing & 2nd PDBjing in Osaka / 5th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course / ARSA: Functional Improvement / Release of the complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12 strain W3110 / The current situation of microbe Genome submissions and update / DDBJ Rel. 64 completed and partition of large index files / Report for DDBJ activities in NAR / DDBJ new staff ! / "Flat file (EMBL)" was removed from getentry output format options / Errata at DDBJ services
No. 23 (Dec. 19, 2005): Notice for DDBJing in Osaka / INSD-XML formatted periodical release data available at FTP / A new "Graphical View" function was added to the web BLAST search program / Suspension of the DDBJ activity during the New Year Holidays / Incomplete release of WGS data at FTP / 28th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
No. 22 (Nov. 15, 2005): Smiley sits on the mushroom / Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases / Rice Genome analysis completed / Chimpanzee Genome sequencing completed / Release of transcript sequences derived from human and mouse with a huge scale / Macaca fascicularis cDNA database (QFbase) / New items are added to the DDBJ HP / Change the format of a Variable record of MGA data / DDBJ Rel. 63 Completed / The report of INSDC annual meeting / Termination of SF gate-WAIS and malign service
No. 21 (Oct. 31, 2005): Have you ever noticed the face on a USB flash drive? / Creation of the ENV division / Layout change !! -- getentry web version / DDBJ Rel. 62 Completed / International bioinformatics training course in Taiwan / DDBJ new staff / Close notification---SF gate-WAIS and malign / URL change: CAMUS Database and SSThread

Note: To match the issue number with that of Japanese version, English version Mail Magazine starts from No.21. No.1 - No.20 are available only in Japanese.

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