KOBIC Introduction

KOBIC: Korean Bioinformation Center, KRIBB, Korea

KOBIC is the national bioinformation center of Korea. KOBIC manages biological information from bioversity (http://bioversity.org), bioresource, and omics (including genomics, proteomics, expressomics, etc: http://omics.org).

KOBIC has 45 bioinformatics researchers and 5 administration staff. It has an over 100 terabyte storage space with more than 700 CPUs in various clusters and servers. It is conveniently located in Daejeon (Science Town), South Korea, and affiliated with KRIBB (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology) which is the representative national center of bioscience and biotechnology of Korea.

The main function of KOBIC is to be the national focal point of the Korean biological science and technology network. It also functions as the designated national correspondent for official international collaboration in bioscience and biotechnology through MOUs, international research funds, and bioinformation exchange. KOBIC has been collaborating with various biotechnology institutes in Southeast Asia since 2005.

KOBIC has dual responsibility as a national bioinformation management and bioinformatics research center. Its major research areas includes genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, interactomics, and variomics (http://variome.net).

KOBIC’s main web service includes various web server sites, including http://www.kobic.re.kr, http://biospecies.org, and http://biopedia.org

KOBIC’s mission emphasizes openfree dissemination of programs, databases, and knowledge to the public. Therefore, any academic collaboration is welcome in and outside of Korea to share resources and information.

KOBIC aims to become one of the major participants of the emerging Asian bioinformation network of the 21^st century.

For more information please visit: http://www.kobic.re.kr/