DDBJ has launched the JBI (Japan alliance for Bioscience Information) portal site in collaboration with National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC)/JST, Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS)/Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research/ROIS, and Protein Data Bank Japan(PDBj)/Institute for Protein Research/Osaka University. This portal site provides one-stop service of databases and tools which are helpful in various scenes of the life science research.