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).
Its function is the national focal point of biological science and technology network of Korea. It also functions as a designated national correspondent to official international collaboration in bioscience and biotechnology through MOUs, international research funds and bioinformation exchange. KOBIC has been collaborating with various biotechnology institutes in South East Asia.

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

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

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

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

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

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