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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font colorface="#800080Times New Roman, serif" size="3">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). </font><font size="3"><br />
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">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.</font><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">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 [when?].</font><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">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). </font><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">KOBIC’s main web service includes various web server sites, including <u><a href="http://www.kobic.re.kr/"><font color="#800080">http://www.kobic.re.kr</font></a></u>, http://biospecies.org, and <u><a href="http://biopedia.org/"><font color="#800080">http://biopedia.org</font></a></u></font></font><font color="#800080"><br /><font size="3"></font></font></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">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.</font></p><p stylefont size="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm3"><br /></font></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">KOBIC aims to become one of the major participants of the emerging Asian bioinformation network of the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</font></p><p stylefont size="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm3"><br /></font></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">For more information please visit: http://www.kobic.re.kr/</font></p>