Scientific Surveys on the International Collaborations in Development and Administration of the DNA Databank

DNA数据库是由欧洲的EMBL数据库、美国的GenBank和日本的DNA数据库（DDBJ）组成的国际DNA序列数据库。我们负责DDBJ。因此，建立和修订三家数据库共享的运营政策是不可避免的。为了审查在三个数据库之间适当执行的政策，并在必要时加以修订，国际咨询委员会成员每年在三个数据库之一举行一次会议。这次会议在华盛顿特区举行，由GenBank负责。我们参加会议是为了交流我们和顾问之间对政策的意见、建议和评论。这次会议对我们来说是非常富有成效的，因为我们可以告诉他们我们的数据库活动，并获得关于更有效地运行DDBJ的很多信息。我们也可以与参加会议的GenBank和EMBL Data Library人员建立更加紧密友好的关系。因此，我们将能够从GenBank获得数据处理和管理的软件。我们将使用它来更满意地运行DDBJ。

The DNA Data Banks are international data banks for DNA sequence data which are composed of EMBL Data Library in Europe, GenBank in the USA, and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ). We are in charge of DDBJ. It is thus inevitable to establish and revise the operating policy which is shared by the three data banks. To examine the policy to be executed properly among the three data banks and to revise it if necessary, the International Advisory Committee members meet once a year at one of the three data banks. This time it was held in Washington, D. C. for which GenBank was responsible. We attended the meeting to exchange opinions, suggestions, and comments on the policy between the advisors and us. The meeting was very fruitful for us, because we could tell them our data bank activities and obtain a lot of information about running DDBJ more efficiently.We could also establish more tight and friendly relationships to GenBank and EMBL Data Library people who attended the meeting. Consequently, we will be able to obtain software for data processing and management from the GenBank. We will use it to run DDBJ more satisfactorily.