DDBJ Web Magazine-e No.75 & 76

No. 75 & 76 Dec. 25, 2012
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Suspension of the DDBJ activity during the New Year Holidays

We at DDBJ will temporally close our office during the New Year Holidays, in observance of the Japanese custom, New DDBJ Nucleotide Sequence Submission System and data release are also closed.
However, the computer search/analysis and FTP are available as usual.

DDBJ office close	Dec. 29(Sat), 2012 - Jan. 3(Thu), 2013
New DDBJ Nucleotide Sequence Submission System	Dec. 27(Thu), 2012 at 17:00(JST) - Jan. 4(Fri), 2013 at 10:00(JST)
Data release suspension	Dec. 27(Thu), 2012 - Jan. 4(Fri), 2013

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

December 5, 2012 DDBJ

Aplogy for the DDBJ service down due to the lightgning strikes of Nov. 22

Due to the emergency shutdown of NIG supercomputer system caused by the lightning strikes to the Mishima area (DDBJ locates) , a lot of DDBJ services had been unavailable from Nov. 22, 2012. to Nov. 25.(JST)

DDBJ sincerely apologizes for the long-time suspension of many services.

DDBJ Rel. 91.0, DAD (DDBJ amino acid database) Rel. 61.0 Completed

DDBJ Rel. 91.0

Date: Dec. 18, 2012
160,729,709 entries 148,418,537,672 bases
DDBJ Release Note
Latest Release Information

DAD (DDBJ amino acid database) Rel. 61.0

Date: Dec. 18, 2012
25,302,083 entries 7,351,129,523 aa (total number of residues)
DAD Release Note

DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank Feature Table Definition revised

Feature Table Definition 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. It was revised to version 10.2 in November 2012.

Report for DDBJ activities in NAR

DDBJ activities were introduced in the following papers appeared in Nucleic Acids Research.

"DDBJ new system and service refactoring"
Osamu Ogasawara, Jun Mashima, Yuichi Kodama, Eli Kaminuma, Yasukazu Nakamura, Kousaku Okubo and Toshihisa Takagi
Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1): D25-D29.

"The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration"
Yasukazu Nakamura, Guy Cochrane and Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi on behalf of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration
Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1): D21-D24.

Release of WGS data of diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella)

DDBJ newly released WGS data derived from diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella), which had been submitted by National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences.

Available at getentry.

The accession numbers are as follows;

WGS: BAGR01000001-BAGR01088530 (BAHO.gz) (88,530 entries)

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