Spring water from Mt. Fuji flows to Mishima. Around the mainstreet in Mishima, there are a lot of brooks. Various birds gather in the brook. And, the water plant (Mishima-Baikamo) discovered in Mishima will be observed. Mishima is famous for broiled eel. You could eat delicious eel which was soaked in clear stream from Mt. Fuji. Please enjoy sounds of brook and a delicious eel when you come to Mishima. DDBJ issues DDBJ Mail Magazine (No.50). If you have any questions and suggestions about DDBJmag, please do not hesitate to write . We would like to hear from you.

DDBJ provides "getentry" as an entry retrieval system by accession numbers etc. The released entries are firstly searchable in the getentry (usually, the next day of releasing works operated)

So far, the result view of a large entry (over 10 megabyte file size) in the WWW screen might have caused the system instability and the following interruption of the service.

To avoid this problem, DDBJ modified the way of "how to get your result".
In the improved system, when a result entry is over 10 megabyte, FTP is automatically selected to get the result, even the user specified the WWW option. In case of multiple entries, if there is one entry which is over 10 megabyte, the all entries are by FTP. This modification will also be applied to the entry view from "ARSA search result" and "Homology Search (BLAST) search result".

This change was from May 25, 2010. DDBJ will continue to enhnance our services. If you have any comments to DDBJ's services, please send it to DDBJ.

DDBJ started "Twitter". We mainly twitter, about hot topics and updated information etc. http://twitter.com/DDBJ_topics

Feature Table Definition (FT-Doc) is the common annotation manual among the three banks (DDBJ, EMBL-Bank, GenBank) for the construction of the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank International Nucleotide Sequence Database. Feature Table Definition was revised in April 2010. Version is 8.3.

• Date: Apr. 9, 2010
• 16,673,634 entries    4,623,895,321aa (total number of residues)
• DAD Release Note
• DAD release continues to include TPA category data, where as DDBJ periodical release has separated them.
• Latest Release Information

 Release of new Koshihikari rice (Oryza sativa Japonica Group, cultivar Koshihikari ) WGS 654,543 entries

DDBJ newly released 654,543 entries of WGS data and others derived from Koshihikari rice (Oryza sativa Japonica Group, cultivar Koshihikari ), which had been submitted by National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences.

The accession numbers are as follows ;

• scaffold CON: DG000025-DG000036 Oryza_sativa_Japonica_Group_CON_100402_1.seq.gz (12 entries, released on Apr. 2, 2010)
• WGS: BABO01000001-BABO01654543 BABO.gz (654,543 entries, released on Apr. 1, 2010)
• raw outputs (before assemble): DRA000010 (released on Mar. 31, 2010)

Reference sites

• QTL GENOMICS RESEARCH CENTER
• DDBJ Read Archive (DRA)

 Release of new purple witchweed (Striga hermonthica ) EST 67,814 entries

DDBJ newly released 67,814 entries of EST data derived from purple witchweed (Striga hermonthica ), which had been submitted by RIKEN.
The accession numbers  (Anonymous FTP)  are as follows ;

• FS438984-FS506797 (Striga_hermonthica_EST_100402_1.seq.gz) (67,814 entries)

Reference URL: Cultivating Tomorrow

These entries were released as DDBJ daily updates on Apr. 2, 2010.

 Release of new mouse (Mus musculus domesticus ) GSS 122,131 entries

DDBJ newly released 122,131 entries of GSS data derived from mouse (Mus musculus domesticus ) strain: C57BL/6NCrlCrlj, which had been submitted by RIKEN BioResource Center.
The accession numbers  (Anonymous FTP)  are as follows ;

• DH839446-DH961576 (Mus_musculus_domesticus_GSS_100401_1.seq.gz) (122,131 entries)

Reference URL: DNA BANK

These entries were released as DDBJ daily updates on Apr. 1, 2010.