As previously mentioned, regarding the requirement to state the location and date of sample collection, from June 2024, the /country qualifier will be renamed to /geo_loc_name qualifier.
Additionally, in the difficult cases to describe the two attributes, geo_loc_name and collection_date for BioSample submission, missing values will be applied more strictly.
Due to renaming of the qualifier, the following services will be suspended or affected for the following periods.
| Periods | Services | Events |
| May 30, 2024 (Thu) - June 3, 2024 (Mon) | DDBJ Annotated/Assembled Sequences (flat file data) | Suspended: Issuing accession numbers, update and release |
| May 29, 2024 (Wed) 22:00 JST - June 4, 2024 (Tue) 8:00 JST | Nucleotide Sequence Submission System (NSSS) | Suspended |
| May 30, 2024 (Thu) | Mass Submission System (MSS) | Update of tools |
| May 30, 2024 (Thu) | DFAST | Update of tool for creating annotation files |
| May 30, 2024 (Thu) - September 2024 | getentry | Remain /country qualifiers in the existing data |
| May 30, 2024 (Thu) - September 2024 | DDBJ FTP site | Remain /country qualifiers in the existing data |
| May 30, 2024 (Thu) - Early July 2024 | ARSA | Remain /country qualifiers in the existing data |