About MEDALS
About MEDALS
This portal site provides information about the database, analysis tool, and the relevant projects, that conducted with financial support from Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, JAPAN.
NOW PRODUCTS:106 (Database:61, Analysis tool:45)
NOW PROJECTS:19
To make these outcomes access-friendly and utilized more effectively, we are still surveying all the projects and increasing the number of the outcomes to the list.
MEDALS stands for METI DAatabase portal for Life Science; and METI stands for Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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| Name | MEDALS |
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| Aliases | METI Database portal for Life Science |
| Description | The outcome is this portal site. This provides various information on databases and analysis tools for life science which were developed by the projects directly sponsored by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), or developed by the Institutes sponsored by METI. The name of the site, "MEDALS", stands for METI Database portal for Life Science. It opened on October 29, 2008. |
| Type | DB |
| Main Institutes of management | Japan Biological Informatics Consortium (JBiC)|Biomedicinal Information Research Center (BIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
| Country of the Institute | Japan |
| URL of the site | http://medals.jp/etop |
| Interface | GUI |
| Input example | None |
| Amount of the all data for download（Mbyte） | Method to obtain the all data. | 282.0 | None |
| External resources (databases) in building the product. | Many |
| Data type | metadata |
| Biological species in the main concern | All species |
| Conditions of use | Under investigation |
| Frequency of updates (in last two years) | 15 |
| Last date of updates (date of confirmation) | 2010/03/31 (2010/04/01) |
| Main IDs used in the products | None |
| How to make a link to get access to each IDs. | None |
| external databases to which this database/tool have links | >70 |
| Published papers (PubMed IDs) | None |
| Project name | Life science database integration project |
|---|---|
| Area | Genome Informatics |
| Purpose | This project aims to facilitate the research and development in both industry and academia. |
| Introduction | The project develops a portal site that provides various information on databases and analysis tools for life science which were developed by the projects directly sponsored by METI, or developed by the Institutes sponsored by METI. The second aim is to develop an integrated system to utilize the various outcomes related to METI, based on H-Invitationl DB (all human gene database) that was developed in "Genome Information Integration Project (GIIP)". |
| Keyword | database | analysis tool | product | portal | integration |
| Patent (Japan, overseas) | - |
| Archives | |
| Product (Database, Tool) | Nothing |
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