KOBIC

The Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC) is the Korean national research centre in bioinformatics, based in Daejeon, South Korea.[1] The centre is comparable to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the United States and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Europe and plays a key role in various areas such as genomics, proteomics, systems biology, and personalized medicine.[2] As of 2014, the Director of KOBIC is Kim Woonbong.[3]

The research centre was originally established as the National Genome Information Center (NGIC) in 2001. It was designated as the National Center for Registration of Research Results in 2003 and gained its current name in 2006. KOBIC was designated as the National Center for Biological Research Resource Information in 2010.[1] KOBIC is affiliated with the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB).[4]

As a national bioinformation management centre, KOBIC manages biological data from a number of different sources, with an emphasis on omics data.[4]

Research at KOBIC has an emphasis on next-generation sequencing methods, systems bioinformatics, biomedical informatics and structural informatics.[1] Notable databases and tools provided by KOBIC include the MiRGator database for the functional annotation of miRNAs[5] and Patome, a database of biological sequence data of issued patents and/or published patent applications.[6] Researchers at KOBIC have also been involved in the analysis for the Korean Reference Genome Project.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About Us". http://www.kobic.re.kr. Retrieved 5 September 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ Lee, Byung-Wook; Chu, In-Sun; Kim, Nam-Shin; Lee, Jin-Hyuk; Kim, Seon-Yong; Kim, Wan-Kyu; Lee, Sang-Hyuk (31 December 2010). "Bioinformatics Resources of the Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC)". Genomics & Informatics 8 (4): 165–169. doi:10.5808/GI.2010.8.4.165.
  3. ↑ "Greetings". http://www.kobic.re.kr. Retrieved 5 September 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  4. 1 2 "Korean Society for Bioinformatics (KSBI)" (PDF). Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  5. ↑ Cho, S.; Jang, I.; Jun, Y.; Yoon, S.; Ko, M.; Kwon, Y.; Choi, I.; Chang, H.; Ryu, D.; Lee, B.; Kim, V. N.; Kim, W.; Lee, S. (27 November 2012). "miRGator v3.0: a microRNA portal for deep sequencing, expression profiling and mRNA targeting". Nucleic Acids Research 41 (D1): D252–D257. doi:10.1093/nar/gks1168.
  6. ↑ Lee, Byungwook; Kim Taehyung; Kim Seon-Kyu; Lee Kwang H; Lee Doheon (Jan 2007). "Patome: a database server for biological sequence annotation and analysis in issued patents and published patent applications". Nucleic Acids Res. (England) 35 (Database issue): D47–50. doi:10.1093/nar/gkl807. PMC 1781150. PMID 17085479.
  7. ↑ ":: Korean Genome". http://koreagenome.kobic.re.kr. Retrieved 5 September 2014. External link in |website= (help)

External links

Korean Bioinformation Center homepage

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