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October 16, 2023

​Assistant Professor Sato and his colleagues have developed the R package gggkegg for analyzing complex biological networks based on the vast amount of information stored in the KEGG database. The paper was published in Bioinformatics.

October 10, 2023

Associate Professor Zhang and colleagues published a paper in Bioinformatics on the mechanism of pre-training of genome sequences in BERT, one of the large-scale language models.​

July 18, 2023

​Associate Professor Zhang and colleagues have developed a novel contrast learning-based technique to predict host bacteria for bacteriophages, published in Briefings in Bioinformatics.​

January 30, 2023

​In cooperation with the J-League, a paper was published by the BMJ Open comparing PCR and antigen qualitative tests for J-League players and staff, and examining the accuracy of antigen qualitative tests relative to PCR tests.

August 23, 2022

"Japan COVID-19 Task Force" Comprehensive analysis of gene expression in blood cells derived from COVID-19 patients - Individual differences in human genome sequence affect gene expression changes according to severity of disease. Now published in Nature Communications.

August 23, 2022

We have elucidated the relationship between the amount of novel coronavirus in sewage obtained from a sewage epidemiological survey conducted at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games athletes' village and the number of positive individuals tested daily at the athletes' village. The results of this research are expected to be utilized in sewage epidemiological surveys in addition to individual testing as part of infection control measures at mass-gathering events.

August 8, 2022

The Corona Control Task Force, in which Professor Imoto participates as a core member, has built Asia's largest biorepository and elucidated the mechanism of exacerbation of the COVID-19 disease susceptibility gene DOCK2. This result will lead to a new therapeutic target for COVID-19. The paper was published in Nature.

August 5, 2022

Master's course student Zeheng BAI's paper, "Identification of bacteriophage genome sequences with representation learning," has been published by Bioinformatics. This is a research on the development of deep learning technology for improving the accuracy of phage therapy.

August 3, 2022

We revealed that AY.29 delta strains that evolved independently in Japan before the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021 were identified in 20 countries and regions, and at least 55 independent strains were elucidated to have leaked overseas.

May 16, 2022

The research results of the JST Center-of-Innovation at the University of Tokyo, which has continued for nine years, are published in a booklet. It also introduces the results of our research on AI-based cancer genome medicine and metagenome regulation.

February 3, 2022

A paper on the COVID-19 sewage epidemiological survey conducted at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village has been published. The survey was conducted for 52 days during the Games.

July 29, 2021

Nature has published the results of its contribution to the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, an international collaborative research group, as a task force to control the corona. We are analyzing gene polymorphisms involved in the aggravation of COVID-19.

June 25 ,2021

A paper on the clinical trial of the cholera vaccine MucoRice-CTB has been published in the Lancet Microbe. 
We analyzed the intestinal bacteria associated with vaccine efficacy. This is a joint research project with Prof. Kiyono.

June 8 ,2021

The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo and IBM jointly developed a SARS-CoV-2 genome analysis and visualization system to reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 in Japan

March 21 , 2021

A paper examining the infection risk at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 and the effects of various countermeasures by simulation was published in the international scientific journal Microbial Risk Analysis of microbial infection risk analysis.

 

February 10, 2021

A joint research with Prof. Uematsu has been published in Gastroenterology. "Functional Restoration of Bacteriomes and Viromes by Fecal Microbiota Transplantation"

 

March 3, 2021

A joint work with Prof. Nakanishi is published from Science "Senolysis by glutaminolysis inhibition ameliorates various age-associated disorders"

 

December 25, 2020

Professor Imoto will join the expert board of the Tokyo iCDC.

 

November 30, 2020

A new base caller for long-chain sequences using deep learning (Oxford Nanopore) has been published in Bioinformatics.

November 19, 2020

A study of community-derived science on the effects of host genetic factors on the Japanese gut flora has been published, in collaboration with DeNA Life Sciences.

October 14, 2020

The results of our joint research with Fujitsu Laboratories are being used to create "JDream SR", an article research service that utilizes AI.

 

September 18, 2020

"For the first time in the world, we succeeded in analyzing the cells that cause aging in the body." A joint research with Professor Nakanishi was released in a press release.

July 11, 2020

Viral dark matter exposed: metagenome database detects phage-derived antibacterial enzyme

 

May 21, 2020

TCorona Suppression Task Force has started. Imoto is participating as a startup member.