RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Metabolome Informatics Research Team
Team Leader: Masanori Arita (D.Sci.)
Our team develops software platforms necessary for metabolomic analyses, network analyses and computer simulations. We also design databases that help more efficient identification of metabolites. The developed software will be applied to integrated analysis of metabolomic and transcriptomic data collated by other teams to enable systematic understanding of plants.
Research Fields
Chemistry / Biology & Biochemistry / Molecular Biology & Genetics / Plant & Animal Science / Computer Science
Research Subjects
- Statistical analysis and interpretation of metabolomics data
- Development of software for metabolic network analyses and simulations
- Construction of metabolic databases
Publications
- Fukushima A, Nishizawa T, Hayakumo M, Hikosaka S, Saito K, Goto E, Kusano M:
"Exploring tomato gene functions based on coexpression modules using graph clustering and differential coexpression approaches"
Plant Physiol. 158(4), 1487-502 (2012)
- Hasegawa Y, Arita M
"Fluctuating noise drives Brownian transport"
J R Soc Interface, 9(77), 3554-63, 2012