Open AccessNBRP databases: databases of biological resources in Japan
Author(s) -
Yukiko Yamazaki,
Ryo Akashi,
Yutaka Banno,
Takashi Endo,
Hiroshi Ezura,
Kaoru Fukami-Kobayashi,
Kazuo Inaba,
Tadashi Isa,
Katsuhiko Kamei,
Fumie Kasai,
Masatomo Kobayashi,
Nori Kurata,
Makoto Kusaba,
Tetsuro Matuzawa,
Shohei Mitani,
Taro Nakamura,
Yukio Nakamura,
Norio Nakatsuji,
Kiyoshi Naruse,
Hironori Niki,
Eiji Nitasaka,
Yuichi Obata,
Hitoshi Okamoto,
Moriya Okuma,
Kazuhiro Sato,
Tadao Serikawa,
Toshihiko Shiroishi,
Hideaki Sugawara,
Hideko Urushibara,
Masatoshi Yamamoto,
Yoshio Yaoita,
Atsushi Yoshiki,
Yuji Kohara
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nucleic acids research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 9.008
H-Index - 537
eISSN - 1362-4954
pISSN - 0305-1048
DOI - 10.1093/nar/gkp996
Subject(s) - database , resource (disambiguation) , biological database , biology , computer science , information retrieval , bioinformatics , computer network
The National BioResource Project (NBRP) is a Japanese project that aims to establish a system for collecting, preserving and providing bioresources for use as experimental materials for life science research. It is promoted by 27 core resource facilities, each concerned with a particular group of organisms, and by one information center. The NBRP database is a product of this project. Thirty databases and an integrated database-retrieval system (BioResource World: BRW) have been created and made available through the NBRP home page (http://www.nbrp.jp). The 30 independent databases have individual features which directly reflect the data maintained by each resource facility. The BRW is designed for users who need to search across several resources without moving from one database to another. BRW provides access to a collection of 4.5-million records on bioresources including wild species, inbred lines, mutants, genetically engineered lines, DNA clones and so on. BRW supports summary browsing, keyword searching, and searching by DNA sequences or gene ontology. The results of searches provide links to online requests for distribution of research materials. A circulation system allows users to submit details of papers published on research conducted using NBRP resources.