From usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!pagesat!biosci!s.u-tokyo!nigsun!ddbjs4a!yugawa Wed Dec 16 07:50:15 EST 1992 Article: 701 of bionet.general Path: usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!pagesat!biosci!s.u-tokyo!nigsun!ddbjs4a!yugawa From: yugawa@bill.genes.nig.ac.jp (Yoshihiro Ugawa) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: DDBJ Network Servers Summary: anonumous ftp, WAIS, Gopher servers are available at DDBJ Keywords: anonymous ftp, WAIS, Gopher Message-ID: Date: 16 Dec 92 08:38:48 GMT Sender: usenet@genes.nig.ac.jp Organization: National Institute of Genetics in Japan Lines: 129 Nntp-Posting-Host: bill Dear all, DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) Network Server Announcement Following 3 servers are available at DDBJ. Attached, please find "A Brief Outline of DDBJ" and "README.dna" Anonymous ftp server: ftp.nig.ac.jp (133.39.16.66) WAIS server: (:source :version 3 :ip-address "133.39.16.66" :ip-name "wais.nig.ac.jp" :tcp-port 210 :database-name "dna" :cost 0.00 :cost-unit :free :maintainer "ddbj@ddbj.nig.ac.jp" :subjects "DNA sequences (DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank) including daily updates" :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5 (iubio-wais) on Dec 4 12:20:57 1992 by dbm@night This server is off on Sunday The files of type dna used in the index were: /ftp/dna " ) Gopher server: Name=DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima Type=1 Port=70 Path= Host=gopher.nig.ac.jp --Yoshihiro Ugawa --DDBJ --National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan ------------------------------------------------ A Brief Outline of DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan) ------------------------------------------------ We, DDBJ, began a DNA data bank activity in Japan in 1986 with endorsement of the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan and representative Japanese molecular biologists. From the beginning, it was intended that DDBJ would operate as one of the International DNA data banks, with the EMBL Data Library in Europe and GenBank/NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) in the USA as the two other members. Consequently, we have been collaborating with these two data banks in many aspects through daily exchanges of messages and data through international networks, and by holding two annual meetings, the International DNA Data Banks Advisory Meeting and the International DNA Data Banks Collaborative Meeting. DDBJ is the sole DNA data bank in Japan, which is officially certified to collect DNA sequences from researchers and which can issue accession numbers to data submitters. We collect data mainly from Japanese researchers, but of course accept data and issue accession numbers to researchers in any other countries. Data submission via E-mail is preferable, but submission via floppy diskettes is also accepted. We exchange collected data with the EMBL Data Library and GenBank/NCBI on a daily basis, so that the three data banks share virtually the same data at any moment. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us. DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) Postal Address: DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics Yata, Mishima, 411, Japan E-mail address for inquiries: ddbj@ddbj.nig.ac.jp E-mail address for data submission: ddbjsub@ddbj.nig.ac.jp E-mail address for citation and data update: ddbjupdt@ddbj.nig.ac.jp Telephone: +81-559-75-0771 Fax: +81-559-75-6040 ----------------------------- ftp.nig.ac.jp:/dna/README.dna ----------------------------- DNA sequence files are located by its ACCESSION number. Currently, you can not find sequence by its secondary accession number. For example, you can find D00066 in /dna/D/00/06/D00066 directory. ftp> cd /dna/D/00/06/D00066 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls -la 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 dbm 512 Aug 28 02:13 . drwxr-xr-x 11 dbm 512 Aug 27 13:56 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 dbm 5934 Aug 27 08:41 D00066.D -rw-r--r-- 1 dbm 4784 Aug 28 02:13 D00066.E -rw-r--r-- 1 dbm 6240 Aug 27 16:42 D00066.L 226 Transfer complete. remote: -la 272 bytes received in 1.1 seconds (0.24 Kbytes/s) An extension character, D,E,L,N shows the data source. For example, D00066.D is from DDBJ, D00066.E is from EMBL data lib., D00066.L(N) is from GenBank. IF YOU DO NOT FIND THE ACCESSION NUMBER ON THE SERVER: Authors often request that data be held in confidence until after publication even though they have already been assigned an accession number for their data. This adds an additional delay in data release because the data bank staff must ascertain that the data has appeared in print. If you have a reference to sequence data but can not retrieve the data from the server, please send the literature reference and accession number (or locus name) to: ddbjupdt@ddbj.nig.ac.jp and the data will be released to the server as soon as possible. DNA and Protein sequence data are maintained by DDBJ staffs. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact, DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank International Nucleotide Sequence Database). ddbj@ddbj.nig.ac.jp