Information processing system using nucleotide sequence-related information

An apparatus for processing information on a nucleotide sequence comprising:

• a transmitter/receiver that transmits, via a communication network, request information to a first processor which is permitted to access positional information, wherein the positional information represents a position in a nucleotide sequence, and receives, via the communication network, positional information from the first processor, wherein the received positional information is based on the transmitted request information;
• a controller that searches nucleotide sequence-related information regarding an individual to retrieve nucleotide sequence-related information based on the received positional information, and retrieves said nucleotide sequence-related information, wherein the nucleotide sequence-related information that is searched is permitted to be accessed by a second processor;
• and causes the transmitter/receiver to transmit, via the communication network, the retrieved nucleotide sequence-related information to the first processor which is permitted to access semantic information, and which searches the semantic information to retrieve, in response to said transmission of the nucleotide sequence-related information, semantic information based on the transmitted nucleotide sequence-related information, and outputs the semantic information to a device that utilizes the semantic information or information corresponding to the semantic information to comply with a request substantially included in the request information, wherein the controller and the transmitter/receiver are under the control of the second processor.