KOBIC

KOBIC stands for the Korean Bioinformation Center. It is a kind of NCBI of USA in Korea. It is like EBI in Europe.

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KOBIC was originally established as NGIC (National Genome Information Center) in 2001 in Korea. In 2006, its function has been extended to include biodiversity and bioresource information management and a new name KOBIC was born.

It has around 50 bioinformatists with various web sites. Its home page is at http://www.kobic.re.kr/

KOBIC serves the following biodomain sites

• BioCommunity Cluster BiO.CC
• Omics.org: The omics portal
• Biopedia.org: openfree biological encyclopedia
• Biocourse.org: Biology and bioinformatics course material wiki portal
• Biopeople.org
• Biospecies.org: an openfree biological species encyclopedia.
• Biocorea.org: Bioinformation portal for Korea.
• Biowiki.net: Biowiki portal.
• BioDatabase.Org: Home of the MetaBase project.

KOBIC serves the following Omics sites

• Variomics.net: Genetic variation portal at genome scale.
• Interactome.org: openfree Interactome portal.