[1][2] It is located at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in the Shizuoka prefecture of Japan.

It is also a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration or INSDC.

It exchanges its data with European Molecular Biology Laboratory at the European Bioinformatics Institute and with GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology Information on a daily basis.

DDBJ is primarily funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

This committee advises DDBJ about its maintenance, management and future plans once a year.