DDBJ activities were introduced in the following papers appeared in Nucleic Acids Research Vol.40 Database Issue.

"The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration"
Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, Yasukazu Nakamura, and Guy Cochrane on behalf of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration
Nucl. Acids Res. 2012 40: D33-D37; doi:10.1093/nar/gkr1006.

"The DNA Data Bank of Japan launches a new resource, the DDBJ Omics Archive of functional genomics experiments"
Yuichi Kodama, Jun Mashima, Eli Kaminuma, Takashi Gojobori, Osamu Ogasawara, Toshihisa Takagi, Kousaku Okubo, and Yasukazu Nakamura
Nucl. Acids Res. 2012 40: D38-D42; doi:10.1093/nar/gkr994.

"The sequence read archive: explosive growth of sequencing data"
Yuichi Kodama, Martin Shumway, and Rasko Leinonen on behalf of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration
Nucl. Acids Res. 2012 40: D54-D56; doi:10.1093/nar/gkr854.