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DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan) began DNA data bank activities in earnest in 1986 at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG).
Description: DDBJ has been functioning as the international nucleotide sequence database in collaboration with EBI/EMBL and NCBI/GenBank.
DNA sequence records the organismic evolution more directly than other biological materials and ,thus, is invaluable not only for research in life sciences, but also human welfare in general. The databases are, so to speak, a common treasure of human beings. With this in mind, we make the databases online accessible to anyone in the world.
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