Study on the DNA database and other biological databases

在我们的研究中取得的成果中，“第十三届国际核苷酸序列数据库合作者会议”是最重要的。因此，我们主要报道这一点。这次会议于2000年5月16日至18日在美国马里兰州的贝塞斯达举行，DDBJ的代表Yoshio Tateno教授(DDBJ主任)、Hideaki Sugawa教授、Satoshi Miyazaki博士和其他三位DDBJ出席了会议，他们与NCBI(东道主)和来自欧洲的EBB的与会者讨论了有关国际核苷酸序列数据库的各种问题。这次会议决定的重要事项如下。(1)HTG草案序列质量评分分配。G5(五个最大的人类基因组测序中心)要求将高质量的评分文件分配给GenBank和EMBL。由于日本的人类基因组计划也对DDBJ提出了类似的要求，我们决定对此进行相应处理。(2)DDBJ关于建立全长插入片段新区段的建议被采纳。(3)DDBJ关于用refined/Transl_TABLE=“11”代替通用遗传密码的建议获得接受。(4)《欧洲法律规范》建议澄清/例外用法，这些用法在没有明确规则的情况下被使用。DDBJ/GenBank对此表示赞同。(5)GenBank关于只使用一个/基因限定词并增加/gene_syn作为同义词的建议遭到了EMBL和DDBJ的拒绝。此外，Gakashi Gojobori博士和其他研究人员访问了美国、澳大利亚、意大利、德国和中国等与生物信息学有关的研究机构，调查了生物信息学数据库的建设和现状。

Among the results we obtained in our research, "13th International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaborators Meeting "is most important. we thus mainly report about that. This meeting was held in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, from May l6 to 18, 2000, As the delegate from DDBJ, Professor Yoshio Tateno (Director of DDBJ), Professor Hideaki Sugawara, Dr. Satoshi Miyazaki and three other DDBJ attended it., and they discussed various problems concerning International Nucleotide Sequence Database with the attendants of NCBI (host) and EBB from Europe. The important matters decided at this meeting are as follows. (1) HTG draft sequence quality score assignment. G5 (The five biggest human genome sequencing centers) required assignment of quality score files to GenBank and EMBL.Because similar request was also made to DDBJ from human genome projects in Japan, we decided to correspond with this matter. (2) DDBJ's proposal for creation of new division (FLI) for full length insert cDNA was accepted. (3) DDBJ's proposal for usage of redefined/transl_table= "11" for the case of plastid in gereral, substituting for universal genetic code, /transl_table= "1" was accepted. (4) EMBL proposed clarification of/exception usage, which had been used without clear rules. DDBJ/GenBank agreed with it. (5) GenBank's proposal for use of only one/gene qualifier and addition of/gene_syn as synonyms was rejected by EMBL and DDBJ.Besides, Dr. Takashi Gojobori and other research staffs visited research institutes related to bioinformatics in USA, Australia, Italy, Germany, and China, and investigated construction of databases for bioinformatics and their current usages.