Study on the development of the DNA databank

国际核苷酸序列数据库是由欧洲生物信息学研究所（EBI）、美国国家生物技术信息中心（NCBI）、日本DNA数据库（DDBJ）等国际合作建立的。为了更顺利地进行这一国际合作，每年举行两次国际会议（咨询和合作）。由于原计划的两次会议不在本财政年度举行（计划于1995年4月举行），我们转而前往EBI和NCBI讨论合作问题。我们还访问了圣达菲新成立的NCGR（国家基因组资源中心），以了解他们的现状和未来。事实证明，虽然NCGR的名字，但它并不是一个政府机构，而是一个民间企业。然而，他们确实获得了DOE（能源部）的资助，用于构建GSDB（基因组序列数据库）。我们与NCGR和NCBI详细讨论了美国DNA数据库的未来。欧洲的情况要好得多。EBI目前正在Hinxton的基因组公园（Genome Park）建造一座新大楼，研究活动和服务活动将在不久的将来得到加强。

The international nucleotide sequence database is constructed through the international collaboration among Europe (EBI ; European Bioinformatics Institute), U.S.A.(NCBI ; National Center for Biotechnology Information), and Japan (DDBJ ; DNA Data Bank of Japan). To proceed this international collaboration more smoothly, two international meetings (advisory and collaborative) are held annually. Because the originally planned two meetings were not held within this fiscal year (planned to be held in April 1995), we instead went to EBI and NCBI for discussing collaborative issues. We also visited the newly created NCGR (National Center for Genome Resources) at Santa Fe to find out their current situation and future.It turned out that NCGR,though its name implies, is not a governmental organization, but a mere private company. However, they does receive a grant from DOE (Department of Energy) for constructing GSDB (Genome Sequence Data Base). We discussed with NCGR and NCBI in detail about the future of USA DNA databanks.The situation in Europe is much better. EBI is now constructing a new building at the Genome Park, Hinxton, and research activity as well as service activity will be strengthened in the near future.