Database Center for Life Science

Database Center for Life Sciences
Established2007
DirectorYuji Kohara
AddressUniv. of Tokyo Kashiwa-no-ha Campus Station Satellite 6F. 178-4-4 Wakashiba, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, JAPAN
Location
Kashiwa and Mishima, Japan
Coordinates35°53′41″N 139°57′09″E / 35.89473°N 139.9525739°E / 35.89473; 139.9525739
Interactive map of Database Center for Life Sciences
Websitehttps://dbcls.rois.ac.jp/index-en.html

Database Center for Life Science (ライフサイエンス統合データベースセンター) or DBCLS, is a Japanese research institute and part of the Research Organization of Information and Systems. It was founded in 2007.

BioHackathon

DBCLS has been organizing annual BioHackathon event since 2008 and co-organizing with National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) since 2011. The main objective of the events is a development of technologies and resources which improves integration, preservation and utilization of databases in life sciences.

Resources at the DBCLS

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Archived 2016-03-26 at the Wayback Machine Database Center for Life Sciences - About -
  2. ↑ Katayama T; et al. (2010). "The DBCLS BioHackathon: standardization and interoperability for bioinformatics web services and workflows". J. Biomed. Semant. 1 (1): 8. doi:10.1186/2041-1480-1-8. PMC 2939597. PMID 20727200.