KOBIC stands for the Korean Bioinformation Center. It is comparable to the US NCBI in America and EBI in Europe.
The Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC) was originally established as NGIC (National Genome Information Center) in 2001 in Korea. In 2006, its function has been extended to include biodiversity and bioresource information management and a new name KOBIC was born. KOBIC is the national research center for bioinformatics which plays a key role in various areas such as genomics, proteomics, systems biology, and personalized medicine.
It has around 50 bioinformatists with various web sites.