1. Database catalog inhttp://medals.jp/etop 2010/12/10 Chisato Yamasaki chisato-yamasaki@aist.go.jp Integrated Database and Systems Biology Team Biomedicinal Information Research Center (BIRC) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

2. MEDALSMETI Life science integrated database portal site

3. Database catalog forlife science databases of METI, Japan Currently, we have the database catalog of 63 databases in Japan.

4. Database list page sample:http://medals.jp/elist/list_alldb?page=4

5. Detailed catalog page sample: http://medals.jp/elist/detail/9

6. 20 items in MEDALS DB catalog DB Name DB Aliases name Description Type Main Institutes of management Country of the Institute URL of the site Interface Input example Amount of the all data for download（Mbyte） | Method to obtain the all data. External resources (databases) in building the product Data type Biological species in the main concern Conditions of us Frequency of updates (in last two years) Last date of updates (date of confirmation) Main IDs used in the products How to make a link to get access to each IDs. external databases to which this database/tool have links Published papers (PubMed IDs)

8. 47 databaseshttp://togo.dna.affrc.go.jp/ MEXT DB catalog 822 databases http://lifesciencedb.jp/lsdb.cgi?gg=dbcatalog&lng=en

9. What we can provide for BioDBcore We can provide and share the information of all the 60 databases in current MEDALS. We may can coordinate to provide the information of all the other databases in Japan. Those information will be in unified format, may be in XML or RDF.