| Career Summary |
1994: Graduated, Faculty of Information Science, The University of Tokyo
1999: Doctor of Science from The University of Tokyo (Information Science)
1999: Researcher, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
2001: Researcher, Computational Biology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
2003: Associate Professor, Department of Computational Biology, The University of Tokyo
2004: Project Associate Professor, Institute of Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
2006: Sub-Director, Metabolomics Research Group, Plant Science Center, RIKEN
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| Educational Activities |
Graduate school: Basic bioinformatics I, Bioinformatics Excercises
Faculty of Science: Systems Biology
Graduate School of Agricultural Science: Systems Biology
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| Research Activities |
Development of the following databases.
General topics in metabolism http://metabolome.jp/
Database of Flavonoid http://metabolome.jp/software/
Official Database of JCBL http://lipidbank.jp/
High-resolution MS database http://massbank.jp/
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Literature
1) Nagasaki, H., Arita, M., Nishizawa, T., Suwa, M. and Gotoh, O "Automated classification of alternative splicing and transcriptional initiation and construction of visual database of classified patterns" Bioinformatics, 22(10) 1211-1216, 2006
2) Arita, M. "The metabolic world of Escherichia coli is not small." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 101(6) 1543-1547, 2004
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| Other Activities |
Japanese Conference of Biochemistry of Lipids (JCBL); Japanese Society of Bioinformatics (JSBi); Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA); Association for Computing Machinery (ACM);
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| Future Plan |
My goal is to develop an interactive metabolic map that can compare multiple biological species.
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| Messages to Students |
Performing research requires a sense of artistry. Pursue your own research steadily, independently, with clear goals.
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