The new and significant DDBj activities of the past year were introduced
in the following 3 papers appeared in Nucleic Acids Research Vol.34
Database Issue (Jan. 1).
  • Report for Overall activities of DDBJ in 2005
    "DDBJ in preparation for overview of research activities behind
    data submissions."

    Kousaku Okubo, Hideaki Sugawara, Takashi Gojobori and Yoshio Tateno
    Nucleic Acids Research, 2006, Vol. 34, Database issue D6-D9
    (Summary) INSDC collaboation¡¤introduction of newly released databases,
    New development, especially , indexing for breakdown statistics are
    released in DDBJ HP. (PMID: 16381940)
  • Introduction of the new database:BodyMap-Xs
    "BodyMap-Xs: anatomical breakdown of 17 million animal ESTs for
    cross-species comparison of gene expression."

    Osamu Ogasawara, Makiko Otsuji, Kouji Watanabe, Takayasu Iizuka,
    Takuro Tamura, Teruyoshi Hishiki, Shoko Kawamoto, and Kousaku Okubo
    Nucleic Acids Research, 2006, Vol. 34, Database issue D628-D631
    (Summary) BodyMap-Xs (a database for cross-species gene expression
    comparison based on EST data) was created and released.(PMID: 16381946)
  • Introduction of the new database:Rap-DB
    "The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): hub for Oryza sativa
    ssp. japonica genome information."
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    Hajime Ohyanagi, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Hiroaki Sakai, Yasumasa Shigemoto,
    Kaori Yamaguchi, Takuya Habara, Yasuyuki Fujii, Baltazar A. Antonio,
    Yoshiaki Nagamura, Tadashi Imanishi, Kazuho Ikeo, Takeshi Itoh, Takashi
    Gojobori, and Takuji Sasaki
    Nucleic Acids Research, 2006, Vol. 34, Database issue D741-D744
    (Summary) The RAP-DB, a database for highly curated rice annotations was
    opened in last December..
    (PMID: 16381971)