DDBJ Web Magazine-e March 2013 Issue


March 2013 Issue (Mar. 1, 2013)
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Plum-blossoms and Mt.Fuji
Now is the best season to view-plum blossoms in Shizuoka prefecture. Plum-blossom festivals are being held in many places throughout there.
At Iwamotoyama Park in Fuji city, people can enjoy viewing blossom and Mt. Fuji at the same time. Both are very beautiful. Many cherry blossoms will broom here next month.


DDBJ issues DDBJ Web Magazine-e February 2013 Issue. If you have any questions and suggestions about Web Magazine-e, please do not hesitate to write to us. We would like to hear from you.

(Mar.8-11)DDBJ network services will be unavailable for power outage
DDBJ network services will be unavailable at the following schedule because of the electric power outage of the NIG(National Institute of Genetics) and maintenance of the NIG SuperComputer.
Please note that the suspended period depends on the service.

Services Scheduled (JST)
getentry, ARSA, Anonymous-FTP
D-way, DRA, DTA, BioProject,
Mar. 8 (Fri), 13:00 - Mar. 11 (Mon), 12:00
DDBJ HP, NIG SuperComputer,
DDBJ Nucleotide Sequence Submission System,
BLAST, ClustalW,
DDBJ Read Annotation Pipeline, MiGAP,
Mar. 8 (Fri), 17:00 - Mar. 11 (Mon), 9:00
*an optional extra day: Mar. 11 (Mon), 24:00
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

February 28, 2013
Apologies for defects in WGS data from EMBL-Bank

Some disorders were found in a software tool to load WGS data from EMBL-Bank.
Details are as follows:

Coverage: Subset of WGS data from EMBL-Bank, 64,579 entries with following 175 prefixes.
See also the list of publicized WGS data.
CABT, CACQ, CADR, CAEG, CAEK, CAEL, CAEN, CAEO, CAEP, CAER, CAES, CAET, CAEU, CAEV, CAEW, CAFD, 
CAFH, CAFI, CAFJ, CAFK, CAFM, CAFN, CAFQ, CAGA, CAGB, CAGD, CAGH, CAGI, CAGJ, CAGK, CAGL, CAGM, 
CAGN, CAGO, CAGP, CAGQ, CAGR, CAGS, CAGT, CAGU, CAGV, CAGW, CAGX, CAGY, CAGZ, CAHA, CAHB, CAHC, 
CAHD, CAHE, CAHF, CAHG, CAHH, CAHI, CAHJ, CAHK, CAHL, CAHN, CAHO, CAHP, CAHR, CAHT, CAHU, CAHV, 
CAHW, CAHX, CAHZ, CAIA, CAIB, CAIE, CAIF, CAIG, CAIH, CAII, CAIJ, CAIK, CAIL, CAIM, CAIN, CAIO, 
CAIP, CAIQ, CAIR, CAIT, CAIU, CAJD, CAJE, CAJF, CAJH, CAJJ, CAJK, CAJL, CAJM, CAJN, CAJO, CAJP, 
CAJQ, CAJR, CAJS, CAJT, CAJU, CAJY, CAJZ, CAKA, CAKB, CAKC, CAKD, CAKE, CAKF, CAKM, CAKN, CAKO, 
CAKP, CAKQ, CAKR, CAKS, CAKT, CAKU, CAKV, CAKW, CAKX, CAKY, CAKZ, CALA, CALB, CALC, CALD, CALE, 
CALF, CALG, CALI, CALJ, CALK, CALL, CALU, CALV, CALW, CALX, CALY, CALZ, CAMA, CANE, CANF, CANG, 
CANH, CANI, CANJ, CANO, CANP, CANQ, CANR, CANS, CAOH, CAOI, CAOL, CAOM, CAON, CAOO, CAOR, CAOS, 
CAOT, CAOU, CAOV, CAPF, CAPG, CAPH, CAPI, CAPJ, CAPK, CAPL, CAPM, CAPN, CAPS, CAQO, CAQP
Period: From 2012.03.01 to 2013.02.12
Situation: Invalid format of division in LOCUS line
Services: Anonymous FTP,getentry
Measure: We redistributed and applied the data after fixing the software.

We apologize for your inconvenience.

DAD Rel. 61.1 released
DAD Rel.61.1 was released, because some disorders were found in DAD Rel.61.0 (released on December 2012).

Reference: Apologies for defects in DAD data
Release of GSS data of African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)
DDBJ newly released GSS data derived from African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), which had been submitted by National Institute of Genetics.

Available at getentry.
The accession numbers are as follows;

  • GSS: GA720358-GA867435 (147,078 entries)
"FAQ of DDBJ Nucleotide Sequence Submission System" –Vol.1
FAQ about New DDBJ Nucleotide Sequence Submission System.


Q1.I cannot see the "7. Annotation" page after I select a template.

A.If you use Internet Explorer, we recommend you to change the browser to Firefox or Chrome for using DDBJ nucleotide submission system. If you still have any troubles regarding the submission, please let us know.


Q2.At page "7. Annotation", I would like to learn how to add qualifiers. What should I do?

A.At first, please click "Select Qualifier" (1). You can add/delete qualifiers by checking/unchecking a checkbox of each qualifier (2).


     Reference: 7. Annotation
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