Cooperative Initiatives in Bioinformatics for

the East Asia Region

By Jong

KOBIC (Korean Bioinformation Center)KRIBBKOREA

jongbhak@yahoo.com

How to make us cooperate?

Cooperation does not work!

• Small world, But with much gaps.

• Scientists do not cooperate well.

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.

Problems of Corporation

• Too Centralized

• Benefit/Profit for small number of people/groups

• Politics

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

Practicals• EABN Resource Site

• Bioinformatics P2P network

• Openfree bioinformation network with advertisement income

• Virtual Bio Center(s) in Asia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

License of the information

• Openfree BioLicense

• BioLicense means all the information is absolutely free

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

Visual Bioinformation Center

Genome

• $1000 genome

• 4 min. to sequence a human genome

• Very large scale depository is necessary

Variome

• Asian human SNP resource

• Shared P2P style depository

Biodiversity Depository

• Asia has high density of biodiversity information

• Formation of information network

Certificates

• Virtual center provides training and certificates

• In association with CJK training course