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Korean Bioinformation Center

Korean Bioinformation Center is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Korean Bioinformation Center rather than just read about it. In short: The Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC) is the Korean national research centre in bioinformatics, based in Daejeon, South Korea. The centre is comparable to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the United States and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Europe and plays a key role in various areas such as genomics, proteomics, systems biology, and personalized medicine.

Key takeaways

Korean Bioinformation Center belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Korean Bioinformation Center to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Korean Bioinformation Center from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC) is the Korean national research centre in bioinformatics, based in Daejeon, South Korea. The centre is comparable to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the United States and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Europe and plays a key role in various areas such as genomics, proteomics, systems biology, and personalized medicine. The research centre was originally established as the National Genome Information Center (NGIC) in 2001. It was designated as the National Center for Registration of Research Results in 2003 and gained its current name in 2006 by the NGIC director Jong Bhak who passed a bill to establish the national center for bioresource, biodiversity, and bioinformation. Prof. Jong Bhak coined the name KOGIC in 2005 and the formalization of the name was carried out by the vice prime minister Prof. Woosik Kim in 2006. KOBIC was designated as the National Center for Biological Research Resource Information in 2010. KOBIC is affiliated with the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB). As a national bioinformation management centre, KOBIC manages biological data from a number of different sources, with an emphasis on omics data. Research at KOBIC has an emphasis on next-generation sequencing methods, systems bioinformatics, biomedical informatics and structural informatics. Notable databases and tools provided by KOBIC include the MiRGator database for the functional annotation of miRNAs and Patome, a database of biological sequence data of issued patents and/or published patent applications. Researchers at KOBIC have also been involved in the analysis for the Korean Reference Genome Project. The Korean Reference Genome Project was initiated by the then director Jong Bhak who made a formal collaboration with National Standard Reference Center of KRISS, Daejeon, Korea in 2006. The first project under the Korean Reference Genome Project was KOREF. As it was expensive to build a reference genome in 2006, Jong Bhak made a collaboration with Gacheon Cancer and Diabetes Institute led by Dr. Kim, Seong Jin (SJK) and the first KOREF was SJK genome that was sequenced by Illumina GA2 sequencer.

References

External links Korean Bioinformation Center homepage. English pages are no longer available.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Korean Bioinformation Center

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Korean Bioinformation Center claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Korean Bioinformation Center before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Korean Bioinformation Center ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Korean Bioinformation Center

In research: Korean Bioinformation Center appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Korean Bioinformation Center in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Korean Bioinformation Center is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Bioinformatics organizations, International research institutes, Research institutes in South Korea, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Korean Bioinformation Center outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Korean Bioinformation Center in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Korean Bioinformation Center means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Korean Bioinformation Center out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Korean Bioinformation Center in simple terms?

Why does Korean Bioinformation Center matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Korean Bioinformation Center?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Korean Bioinformation Center.