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Cooperative Initiatives in Bioinformatics for the East Asia Region

This article discusses the importance of cooperation in bioinformatics and proposes a distributed corporation model for better collaboration. It also suggests the establishment of virtual bioinformation centers and the sharing of resources and knowledge in the East Asia region.

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Cooperative Initiatives in Bioinformatics for the East Asia Region

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  1. Cooperative Initiatives in Bioinformatics for the East Asia Region By Jong KOBIC (Korean Bioinformation Center) KRIBB KOREA jongbhak@yahoo.com

  2. How to make us cooperate?

  3. Cooperation does not work! • Small world, But with much gaps. • Scientists do not cooperate well.

  4. Corporation does work. • People pursuing own interests with contacts and commitments produce results more efficiently • Corporation style cooperation is based on selfish pursuit of interest. • Everyone is living in some kind capitalistic society anyway.

  5. Problems of Corporation • Too Centralized • Benefit/Profit for small number of people/groups • Politics

  6. Distributed Corporation Model • There is no single director/representative/boss in the network • The DBs are distributed • Every participant is equally respected • Get as much as you put • Politically loose, technically tight • Tight and automated IT infra • P2P, synchronized webs, FTPs

  7. Practicals • EABN Resource Site • Bioinformatics P2P network • Openfree bioinformation network with advertisement income • Virtual Bio Center(s) in Asia.

  8. EABN business • Assets and funds • Bioinformation data, information, & knowledge • Products • Processed, value added, useful data, information, & knowledge. • Sales • Automated machines • Customers • Anyone who uses the Internet • Companies • Governments

  9. Establishing Bioinformation Centers • Each nation designates one official bioinformation center • Reports it to the APBIONET and Virtual Bioinformation Center • Support this center by already established entities

  10. Virtual Bioinformation Center • A top level Bioinformation Center is established • Every participating government acknowledges the virtual bioinformation center • ASEAN is a model • It is also a center of APBIONET • No one nation dominance • No one national center dominance

  11. Why? • Asia has small number of bioinformation experts • Funding is small in most countries • Big global scale bioinformatics project experience is necessary • Infrastructure can be shared in bioinformatics across the borders

  12. Bioinformation data, information, & knowledge • East Asia Bioinformation Network Resource collection project • Initially, a standardized format for bioinformation is distributed and member country fills in • National Bioinformation Centers share the bioinformation • Area of information: genetic, biodiversity, and bioresource, • Additional: education, people

  13. Products • Organized biological data, information, and knowledge from participating national centers • The information is openfree. • Distributed network of information servers provide information on the net • Easily editable data pages • P2P protocol is used to synchronize data

  14. License of the information • Openfree BioLicense • BioLicense means all the information is absolutely free

  15. Key projects • Openfree Asian Genome depository project • Openfree Asian Variome depository project • Asian Biodiversity information depository project (ABDIN + ABDID) • Asian Biomaterials information depository project • Asian Infectious Disease Database

  16. Visual Bioinformation Center

  17. Genome • $1000 genome • 4 min. to sequence a human genome • Very large scale depository is necessary

  18. Variome • Asian human SNP resource • Shared P2P style depository

  19. Biodiversity Depository • Asia has high density of biodiversity information • Formation of information network

  20. Certificates • Virtual center provides training and certificates • In association with CJK training course

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