Bioresource Information Division
Head of Bioresource Information Division
Kaoru FUKAMI (Ph.D.)
Due to the recent advances in the genome analysis, various kinds of research resources such as DNA clones, cell lines, and genetically modified organisms have been and are still being exhaustively developed. According as the bioresources are accumulated in the field of life science, their information is also accumulated so enormously that we cannot utilize it without information technology.
The Bioresource Information Division collects information on whereabouts and characteristics of bioresources of RIKEN BRC, constructs databases, and offers the bioresource information to research community in the form of bio-digital-contents such as a web-based catalog. Through these activities, the division aims to contribute to the advancement of life science.
The division also works on consolidating the databases and on linking them to other biological databases in and outside Japan in order that more information related to the retrieved bioresources can be obtained. In addition, it works on developing new technology to extract biologically significant information from various experimental data obtained from many kinds of bioresources.
- Construction and management of bioresource databases
- Dissemination of bioresource information through the databases and their search engines
- System development and maintenance for facilitating bioresource acquisition
- Development of technology to construct consolidated bioresource databases
- Development of technology for bioresource information analysis
- Yoshino K, Iimura E, Saijo K, Iwase S, Fukami K, Ohno T, Obata Y, Nakamura Y:
"Essential role for gene profiling analysis in the authentication of human cell lines."
Human Cell; 19(1): 43-48 (2006) - Ezawa K, OOta S, Saitou N:
"Genome-wide search of gene conversions in duplicated genes of mouse and rat."
Mol Biol Evol. 2006; 23(5): 927-940. - Amano K, Nakamura H, Numa H, Fukami-Kobayashi K, Nagamura Y, Ichikawa H, Natsuo Onodera N:
"Self-organizing clustering: non-hierarchical clustering for large scale DNA sequence data."
IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics. 2007; 48(SIG5): 49-53. - Fukami-Kobayashi K, Minezaki Y, Tateno Y, Nishikawa K:
"A Tree of Life Based on Protein Domain Organizations."
Mol Biol Evol. 2007; 24(5): 1181-1189. - The Rice Annotation Project (Itoh T et al.):
"Curated Genome Annotation of Oryza sativa ssp. Japonica and Comparative Genome Analysis with Arabidopsis thaliana."
Genome Res; 17 (2): 175-183 (2007) - Matsuya, A. et al. (35 authors):
"Evola: Ortholog database of all human genes in H-InvDB with manual curation of phylogenetic trees."
Nucleic Acids Res 36 (Database issue), D787-792 (2008). - Rice Annotation Project (Tanaka, T. et al.):
"The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): 2008 update."
Nucleic Acids Res 36 (Database issue), D1028-1033 (2008). - Moriwaki K et al. (13 authors):
"Unique Inbred Strain MSM/Ms Established from the Japanese Wild Mouse"
Experimental Animals; 58 (2): 123-134 (2009) - Iida K, Fukami-Kobayashi K, Toyoda A, Sakaki Y, Kobayashi M, Seki M, Shinozaki K:
"Analysis of Multiple Occurrences of Alternative Splicing Events in Arabidopsis thaliana Using Novel Sequenced Full-Length cDNAs."
DNA Research; 16: 155-164 (2009) - Yamazaki Y et al. (33 authors):
"NBRP databases: databases of biological resources in Japan"
Nucl. Acids Res.; 38: D26-D32 (2010)
Principal Investigator
- Kaoru FUKAMI
- Head
Staff Scientist
- Shigeru IWASE
- Senior Research Scientist
- Satoshi OOTA
- Senior Research Scientist
- Kou AMANO
- Special Fixed Term Contract Research Scientist
Technical Assistant
- Naomi YUHARA
- Technical Staff II
- Megumi HONJO
- Technical Staff II