KOBIC
Encyclopedia
KOBIC stands for the Korean Bioinformation Center. It is comparable to the US NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information is part of the United States National Library of Medicine , a branch of the National Institutes of Health. The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by Senator Claude Pepper...

 in America and EBI
European Bioinformatics Institute
The European Bioinformatics Institute is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics, and is part of European Molecular Biology Laboratory...

 in Europe.

The Korean Bioinformation Center (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.
KOBIC is the national research center for bioinformatics which plays a key role in various areas such as genomics, proteomics, systems biology, and personalized medicine.

It has around 50 bioinformatists with various web sites.
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