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Japanese Society for Bioinformatics
Japanese research society From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi) is a Japanese research society on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology established in 1999.[2] The society is an affiliated regional group of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB),[3] and a member of Association of Asian Societies for Bioinformatics (AASBi). Supporting corporate members include the Japanese companies Hitachi, Fujitsu and Shionogi.[2][4]
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Since 2001, the JSBi and Oxford University Press have awarded the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics Prize for outstanding young scientists in bioinformatics.[5][6]
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Presidents
The following people have been president of the JSBi:
- Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University (1999–2004)
- Satoru Miyano, The University of Tokyo (2004–2005)
- Yukihiro Eguchi, Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd (2005–2006)
- Kenta Nakai, The University of Tokyo (2006–2008)
- Osamu Gotoh, Kyoto University (2008–2010)
- Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University (2010–2013)
- Kiyoshi Asai (scientist), The University of Tokyo (2013–2015)
- Kentaro Shimizu (scientist), The University of Tokyo (2015–2017)
- Kengo Kinoshita, Tohoku University (2017–2019)
- Wataru Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo (2019–)
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