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Director and Professor,Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University Contact:tomita[@]ttck.keio.ac.jp Laboratory for Bioinformatics, Institute for Advanced Biosciences 252-0882 Fujisawa, Japan Degree / Specialization:Ph.D. in Computer Science, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology Brief Biography:Masaru Tomita is a Professor and the Director of the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University. He received B.S (1981) in Mathematics from Keio University, M.S (1983) and Ph.D. (1985) from Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University, and another Ph.D. (1994) in Molecular Biology from Keio University. Dr. Tomita is a recipient of Presidential Young Investigators Award from National Science Foundation of USA (1988), IBM Japan Science Prize(2002), Shared University Research Award(2003) from IBM Corporation, Minister for Science and Technology Policy Award（2004）and various other awards. Education:
1981.3 Keio University B.S. Mathematics 1983.9 Carnegie Mellon University M.S. Computer Science 1985.5 Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. Computer Science Doctorate degrees:
1985.5 Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. Computer Science 1994.7 Kyoto University Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1998.3 Keio University Ph.D. Molecular Biology Professional positions:
1985.5 Research Associate, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University 1987.7 Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University 1987.1 Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Machine Translation,
Associate Director 1990.9 Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University 1990.6 Associate Professor, Keio University, Faculty of Environment and
Information Studies 1997.4 Professor, Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information
Studies 2001.4 Director, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University 2003.7 Founder, Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc. 2005.10-2007.9 Dean, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University Honors:1988.3 Presidential Young Investigator's Award from National Science Foundation of USA 1998.11 Gijuku Award 1999.10 Gold Medal, Tokyo Techno-forum21 2002.11 IBM Japan Science Prize 2003.11 Shared University Research Award（IBM Corporation） 2004.6 Minister of Science and Technology Policy Award 2007.4 The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 2009.8 Recognition of Distinguished Service, International Society of Metabolomics 2009.11 Fukuzawa Award Board member: ①Systems and Synthetic Biology ②Molecular Systems Biology ③BMC Bioinformatics: Editorial Board ④BMC Biology ⑤Journal of Metabolomics ⑥Bioinformatics and Computational Biology ⑥Gene ⑦Computational Linguistics ⑧Grammar ⑨BMC Research Notes ⑩Cell Biology Insights ⑪The Automated Experimentation journal ⑫BMC Biochemistry Editorial board:
①Systems and Synthetic Biology ②Molecular Systems Biology ③BMC Bioinformatics: Editorial Board ④BMC Biology ⑤Journal of Metabolomics ⑥Bioinformatics and Computational Biology ⑥Gene ⑦Computational Linguistics ⑧Grammar ⑨BMC Research Notes ⑩Cell Biology Insights ⑪The Automated Experimentation journal ⑫BMC Biochemistry Research Activities & Projects:
Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Metabolomics, Genome Informatics, and Biological Simulation. Keywords:Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Metabolomics, Genome Informatics, and Biological Simulation. Publications:- “Non-targeted metabolite profiling in activated macrophage secretion”
Sugimoto, M., Sakagami, H., Yokote, Y., Onuma, H., Kaneko, M., Mori, M.,
Sakaguchi, Y., Soga, T. and Tomita, M. Metabolomics
DOI:10.1007/s11306-011-0353-9 (2011)
- "Metabolic flux analysis and visualization" Toya, Y., Kono, N., Arakawa,
K. and Tomita, M. J. Proteome Res. 10 : 3313-3323 (2011)
- “G-language genome analysis environment with REST and SOAP web service
interfaces” Arakawa, K., Kido, N., Oshita, K. and Tomita, M. Nucleic Acids
Res. 38:W700-W705（2010）
- “Systematic identification of cell cycle-dependent yeast
nucleocytoplasmic shuttling proteins by prediction of composite motifs”
Kosugi, S., Hasebe, M., Tomita, M. and Yanagawa, H. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S
A. 106:10171-6(2009)
- “Tri-split tRNA is a transfer RNA made from 3 transcripts that provides
insight into the evolution of fragmented tRNAs in archaea” Fujishima, K.,
Sugahara, J., Kikuta, K. Hirano, R.,Sato, A., Tomita, M. and Kanai, Proc
Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106:2683-7(2009)
- “Capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry-based saliva metabolomics
identified oral, breast and pancreatic cancer-specific profiles” Sugimoto,
M., Wong, D. T., Hirayama, A., Soga, T. and Tomita, M. Metabolomics 6:78-95.
(2009)
- “Multiple high throughput analyses monitor the response of E. coli to
perturbations” Ishii, N., Nakahigashi, K., Baba, T., Robert, M., Soga, T.,
Kanai, A., Hirasawa, T., Naba, M., Hirai, K., Hoque, A., Yee, Ho, Pei.,
Kakazu, Y., Sugawara, K., Igarashi, S., Harada, S., Masuda, T., Sugiyama,
N., Togashi, T., Hasegawa, M., Takai, T., Yugi, K., Arakawa, K., Iwata, N.,
Toya, Y., Nakayama, Y., Nishioka, T., Shimizu, K., Mori, H. and Tomita, M.;
Science 316, 593-597 (2007)
- "Simulation study of methemoglobin reduction in erythrocytes. Differential
contributions of two pathways to the tolerance of oxidative stress”
Kinoshita, A., Nakayama, Y., Kitayama, T. and Tomita, M. FEBS Journal 274 :
1449-1458 (2007)
- "Permuted tRNA Genes Expressed via a Circular RNA Intermediate in
Cyanidioschyzon merolae" Soma, A., Onodera, A., Sugahara, J., Kanai, A.,
Yachie, N., Tomita, M., Kawamura, H. and Sekine, Y.; Science 318:5849,
450-453 (2007)
- “Whole cell simulation: A grand challenge of the 21st century” Tomita,
M.: Trends in Biotechnology, 19:6, 205-210 (2001)
- "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)
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