A 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the East Japan on March 11, 2011. The large earthquake generated tsunamis that caused horrible damage to a wide range of coastal areas in the East Japan. Just after the earthquake, people worldwide expressed sympathy and began various supports for the devastated districts. We appreciate warm supports from all over the world. DDBJ issues DDBJ Mail Magazine (No.58 & 59). If you have any questions and suggestions about DDBJmag, please do not hesitate to write . We would like to hear from you.

DDBJ Rel. 85.0

• Date: Mar. 30, 2011
• 132,302,771 entries    124,516,775,718 bases
• DDBJ Release Note
• Latest Release Information


DAD (DDBJ amino acid database) Rel. 55.0
• Date: Mar. 30, 2011
• 19,723,681 entries    5,576,482,211aa (total number of residues)
• DAD Release Note

We modified the DEFINITION format of flat file from Japan Patent Office (JPO) and Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO).
The patent publication/application number and sequence number was set on the head of DEFINITION line.

Revision example for DEFINITION line:
(Old format)
DEFINITION Genetic Makers Expressed in Tumors.

(New format)
DEFINITION JP 2010599999-A/1: Genetic Makers Expressed in Tumors.

We distributed the revised data from following site.
(Nucleic acid sequence data)
Please get the revised data from Release 85.0 site. They will be reflected sequentially from getentry, ARSA and BLAST.
  Patent file name: ddbjpat**.seq.gz
  **: file number

(Amino acid sequence data)
Please get the revised data from DDBJ anonymous FTP site. They have been already reflected from getentry and BLAST.
  JPO file: jpo_ddbj_aa.seq.gz
  KIPO file: kipo_ddbj_aa.seq.gz

Suspension of a part of the DDBJ services due to save electricity by the effect of recent disaster. Details are as follows:

Resumed BLAST and ClustalW.
Please understand the numbers of running processes are decreased for electricity conservation. (2011.04.12)
Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.

Days from April 29 to May 8, 2011 are national holidays called Golden Week in Japan. We at DDBJ suspend our work for releasing data and answering all inquiries during consecutive holidays. Search and analysis and other WWW services are available. We will go back to work as usual from May 9.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

DDBJ newly released GSS data derived from rice (Oryza sativa Japonica Group ), which had been submitted by National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences.

The accession numbers are as follows ;

• FT872362-FT932077 (59,716 entries)

These entries were released as DDBJ daily updates on Feb. 25, 2011.

DDBJ newly released full length cDNA sequence data derived from domesticated barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare ), which had been submitted by National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences.

The accession numbers are as follows ;

• AK353559-AK377172 (23,614 entries)

These entries were released as DDBJ daily updates on Mar. 18, 2011.

DDBJ newly released GSS data derived from African rice (Oryza glaberrima ) 437,642 entries, which had been submitted by National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences.

The accession numbers are as follows ;

• FT434720-FT654719 (220,000 entries) released on Mar. 24
• FT654720-FT872361 (217,642 entries) released on Mar. 25

DDBJ newly released WGS sequence data derived from chromosome 3H of domesticated barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare cv. Haruna Nijo), which had been submitted by Okayama University.

The accession numbers are as follows ;

• BACC01000001-BACC01008583 (8,583 entries)

These entries were released as DDBJ daily updates on Apr. 5, 2011.