DNA Data Bank of Japan

                            Release 1.0,  July 1987

                       66 loci, 108970 bases, 4291 lines



             This data base may be copied and redistributed freely,

             without  advance  permission,    provided  that   this

             statement is reproduced with each copy.







             Prepared by:

             Takeo Maruyama      General Manager

             Sanzo Miyazawa      Manager/Database Administrator

             Hidenori Hayashida  Database Administrator/Scientific Reviewer

             Motono Horie        Secretary





                          DNA Data Bank of Japan
                      National Institute of Genetics
                 Center for Genetic Information research
                Laboratory of Genetic Information Analyses

                               1111 Yata
                          Mishima, Shizuoka 411
                                 Japan

                  Phone: Japan (0559) 75-0771  Ext. 647



             Files included:

             1) relnote1.0: this note
             2) ddbj1.0:    DNA data
             3) ddbjd1.0:   DNA protein coding sequences extracted
                            from ddbj1.0
             4) ddbjp1.0:   protein sequences translated from ddbjd1.0

             The 3rd and 4th files above were generated by using
             "seqext" and "pepttr" programs maded by Dr. Jim Fickett
             in GenBank, Los Alamos National Laboratory.


             Acknowledgements:

             We thank GenBank for helps, especially for providing us
             with such tools that are useful for quality control in
             data entry.