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Laboratory for Bioinformatics, Institute for Advanced Biosciences 252-8520 Fujisawa, Japan

Degree / Specialization:

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Molecular biology, bioinformatics etc.

Brief Biography:

Masaru Tomita is a professor and the Director of Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University. He received his B.S (1981) in Mathematics from Keio University, M.S (1983) and Ph.D (1985) in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and another Ph.D (1994) in Molecular Biology from Keio University. Among other awards and prizes, Dr. Tomita is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigators Award from National Science Foundation of USA (1988) and IBM Japan Science Prize(2002).

Research Activities & Projects:

E-Cell Project, Metabolome Project and others

Keywords:

E-Cell, Bioinformatics, Metabolic engineering, Metabolomics etc

Publications:

• “E-CELL: Software environment for whole cell simulation” Tomita, M., Hashimoto, K., Takahashi, K., Shimizu, T., Matsuzaki, Y., Miyoshi, F., Saito, K., Tanida, S., Yugi, K., Venter, J.C. and Hutchison, C.: Bioinformatics, 15:1, 72-84 (1999)　
• “Whole cell simulation: A grand challenge of the 21st century” Tomita, M.: Trends in Biotechnology, 19:6, 205-210 (2001)
• “Computational challenges in cell simulation” Takahashi, K., Yugi, K., Hashimoto, K., Yamada, Y., Pickett, C., and Tomita, M.: IEEE Intelligent Systems, Sept/Oct (2002)

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