Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference Plant & Animal Genomes XIII ConferenceJanuary 15-19, 2005
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA
Yukiko Yamazaki , Rie Tsuchiya , Sumiko Yano , Koji Watanabe , Naoki Takahashi , Kazuhiro Oogushi , Wataru Yahagi , Tomoe Yamakawa , Mutsumi Saito , Miharu Ikizawa , Shusaku Kawaguchi , Takehiro Yamakawa
In 2002 the National Bioresource Project was started in Japan to reinforce the system for collecting, maintaining, and providing research resources and their information effectively.
Twenty-four resource centers, each being a representative organization of a species and one information center have been established. Our mission as the information center is to collect resource information and provide databases while promoting effective uses of the resources. Twenty-three individual databases are now available for use through the internet and both intra-species integration such as genetic resources and genomic resources integration, and inter-species integration using ontology are progressing / developing. We are developing a system, the BioResource World, which enables resource curators to upload and provide their information through the online database without having to maintain their own database. This system also allows resource users to search several different resource databases at once. Some of the databases which we have constructed implement not only Gene Ontology but also a variety of ontologies such as plant phenotype ontology, plant trait ontology, and plant developmental stage ontology.
In this meeting, we would like to introduce the NBRP and trial ontologies and discuss the international collaboration. Information about the NBRP is available online at http://www.nbrp.jp/.