Database Center for Life Science

Database Center for Life Sciences
Established 2007
Director Yuji Kohara
Location Kashiwa and Mishima, Japan
Address Univ. of Tokyo Kashiwa-no-ha Campus Station Satellite 6F. 178-4-4 Wakashiba, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, JAPAN
Website http://dbcls.rois.ac.jp/en/

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.[1]

BioHackathon

DBCLS has been organizing annual BioHackathon event since 2008 [2] 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

External links

Notes and references

  1. 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. Semantics. 1: 8. doi:10.1186/2041-1480-1-8. PMC 2939597Freely accessible. PMID 20727200.

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