Japanese Society for Bioinformatics

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Japanese Society for Bioinformatics" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2020)

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]

Since 2001, the JSBi and Oxford University Press have awarded the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics Prize for outstanding young scientists in bioinformatics.^[5][6]

Presidents

The following people have been president of the JSBi:

1. Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University (1999–2004)
2. The University of Tokyo
   (2004–2005)
3. Yukihiro Eguchi, Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd (2005–2006)
4. Kenta Nakai,
   The University of Tokyo
   (2006–2008)
5. Osamu Gotoh, Kyoto University (2008–2010)
6. Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University (2010–2013)
7. The University of Tokyo
   (2013–2015)
8. The University of Tokyo
   (2015–2017)
9. Kengo Kinoshita, Tohoku University (2017–2019)
10. The University of Tokyo
    (2019–)

References

External links

• Official website

This article about an organization or organization-related topic in Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e