ABSTRACT
Establishment of the Resource Information Archive in Japan...........................57 Mouse and Rat Resource Databases in Japan....................................................58
CARD R-DB...........................................................................................58 Riken GSC/BRC DB ..............................................................................58 NIG Mouse DB.......................................................................................59 Mouse Polymorphism DB ......................................................................59 Rat DB.....................................................................................................59
Future Directions.................................................................................................59
Although we have a long history of development and preservation of mouse genetic resources in Japan, it took quite a long time to establish the resource centers and to construct the database. Recently the Japanese government decided to reinforce the infrastructure of research resource preservation and provision.
