Database catalog in

http://medals.jp/etop

2010/12/10

Chisato Yamasakichisato-yamasaki@aist.go.jp

Integrated Database and Systems Biology TeamBiomedicinal Information Research Center (BIRC)

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

MEDALSMETI Life science integrated database portal site

Database catalog forlife science databases of METI, Japan

• Currently, we have the database catalog of 63 databases in Japan.

Database list page sample:http://medals.jp/elist/list_alldb?page=4

Detailed catalog page sample:http://medals.jp/elist/detail/9

20 items in MEDALS DB catalog1. DB Name

2. DB Aliases name

3. Description

4. Type

5. Main Institutes of management

6. Country of the Institute

7. URL of the site

8. Interface

9. Input example

10. Amount of the all data for download（Mbyte） | Method to obtain the all data.

11. External resources (databases) in building the product

12. Data type

13. Biological species in the main concern

14. Conditions of us

15. Frequency of updates (in last two years)

16. Last date of updates (date of confirmation)

17. Main IDs used in the products

18. How to make a link to get access to each IDs.

19. external databases to which this database/tool have links

20. Published papers (PubMed IDs)

Cooperation undergoing for “all database catalog in Japan”

• MEXT DB catalog – 822 databases

http://lifesciencedb.jp/lsdb.cgi?gg=dbcatalog&lng=en

• Agri (crops) DB catalog

• 47 databaseshttp://togo.dna.affrc.go.jp/

What we can provide for BioDBcore

• We can provide and share the information of all the 60 databases in current MEDALS.

• We may can coordinate to provide the information of all the other databases in Japan.

• Those information will be in unified format, may be in XML or RDF.