The “Integrated Database Project” was a five year project (starting FY2006), funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), that aimed to improve the accessibility and usability of life science databases in Japan. It was lead by DBCLS/ROIS together with 15 other Japanese universities and institutions (For details of the participating institutions click here).
Although the Project finished in Mar. 2011, project portal websites, search systems and tools useful for life science research which had been developed are being maintained. These are all available from the LSDB home page (some of them which are now maintained by NBDC have auto-link to NBDC website).

DBCLS does not develop primary databases composed of experimental or observational data, but develops information technology and contents (e.g. dictionaries) that improves the accessibility of life science databases.

No. None of our databases or database related services is sold. They are publicly available for free of charge.

Anyone who has access to the Internet can use the services linked from the LSDB home page almost for any purpose (if there are any restrictions, it is stated on each web page).

All of the services linked from the LSDB home page are publicly available and free of charge..

All of the services except for MiGAP (Microbial Genome Annotation Pipeline) DO NOT require an Open ID account. To create an Open ID account provided by DBCLS see here.

Yes, links can be implemented in your web site and does not require any permission.

Read the Site Policies of the LSDB home page carefully. The redistribution of some of the resources in part or whole may be restricted. Read and follow the instructions of the services’ license.

Fill in the form at “Contact” and let us know how we may collaborate.

The Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) was established as a part of the Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) in April 2007, to function as a center of excellence in life science database integration (For more, visit “About Us”). Since the fiscal year of 2006, ROIS had been a core institution of the “Integrated Database Project” funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology which had been later (FY2007 to FY2010) carried out by DBCLS/ROIS together with 15 other Japanese universities and research institutions (For details, read “About the Integrated Database Project”). Since the fiscal year of 2011 DBCLS/ROIS has been appointed for “Program Concerning Technology Development for Database Integration” as a part of the “Life Science Database Integration Project” conducted by the National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) / Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). While DBCLS is located in the Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo, it is an institution independent from the university.

The Research Institution of Information and Systems (ROIS) was established based on the National University Corporation Act in 2004 and originally was a parent organization of four national institutes (the National Institute of Informatics, the National Institute of Genetics, the National Institute of Polar Research, and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics). ROIS is one of the four Inter-University Institutes (the National Institutes of the Humanities, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences) that carries out collaborative research, as core research centers of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The primary feature of the Inter-University Institutes is that the facilities are open to use for researchers and students in and outside of Japan.