Scientific Research and Essays

  • Abbreviation: Sci. Res. Essays
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1992-2248
  • DOI: 10.5897/SRE
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2768

Full Length Research Paper

A genome-based database for agricultural biotechnology

ChangKug Kim1, DongSuk Park1, YoungJoo Seol1, GangSeob Lee1, Myeong Ho Kim1, SooChul Park2, YongKab Kim3 and JangHo Hahn1*
1Genomics Division, National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS), Suwon 441-707, Korea. 2Planning and Coordination Division, National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS), Suwon 441-707, Korea. 3School of Electrical Information Communication Engineering, Wonkwang University, Iksan 570-749, Korea.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 13 March 2012
  •  Published: 31 March 2012

Abstract

The National Agricultural Biotechnology Information Center (NABIC) plays a leading role in maintaining a database of information for agricultural plants and microbes. Since 2002, the NABIC has constructed an agricultural biology-based computational infrastructure and has provided comprehensive agricultural biological research information in Korea. Its major functions are focused on developing bioinformatics tools for investigating agricultural genomes and providing a database that integrates information from multiple plants and microbes. This new genome-based database provides useful information through a user-friendly web interface that allows analysis of genome infrastructure and searching of various resources.

 

Key words: Genome-based, database, biotechnology, web service.