DDBJ began data bank activities at NIG with the endorsement of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sport and Culture.
April, 1995
To operate DDBJ more efficiently, CIB; the Center for Information Biology was established in NIG.
April, 2001
CIB was reorganized as CIB-DDBJ; the Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan
April, 2004
NIG was reorganized as a member of ROIS; Research Organization of Information and Systems. DDBJ has also belonged to ROIS.
May, 2005
DDBJ, EMBL-Bank and GenBank agreed to call their collaboration INSDC; International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration; and to call the unified nucleotide sequence database INSD; the International Nucleotide Sequence Database.
April, 2007
DBCLS; Database Center for Life Science was newly founded in ROIS.
2009
DDBJ faculty staff have greatly been reshuffled. DDBJ collaborates with DBCLS more closely.
INSDC added a collaborative meeting to deal with huge sequence data produced by the next generation sequencers (Sequence Read Archive) and traces produced by traditional sequencers (Trace Archive).
April, 2012
DDBJ, expanding its DNA databank activities, was restructured as one of the Intellectual Infrastructure Project Centers of NIG, being separated from CIB.
October, 2013
Collaborating with NBDC; National Bioscience Database Center, DDBJ Center started to operate the archive for all types of individual-level genetic and de-identified phenotypic data from human subjects, JGA; Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive.