NBRP

What's "National BioResource Project"

"National BioResource Project" was started by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2002. Its aim is to help the most outstanding institutions in the field of biological science to assemble and establish an effective system for the national research development agenda.

The aim of project

The basic genes necessary for biological mechanisms—such as life maintenance, the continuance of the species, adaptation, and evolution—are similar across every biological species. Even though Drosophila have approximately 14,000 genes, which is only half as many as humans have, many genes still have common functions, and are approximately 60% homologous to human genes. Moreover, for Drosophila, the function of more genes have been unraveled than in any other organism, and the number of mutational strains are overwhelmingly many. It is important for propelling life science research to provide any institution with a base in which many strains are collected and stored so that they can be distributed promptly in response to demands. Drosophila especially is becoming more important as a model organism because of the ability to create mutant strains in correspondence with all of the genes. In this situation, our project aims to comprehensively collect mutant strains and to provide research organizations with the maintainance of essential genetic resources for post-genomic research.

Working Institutions