Toh Laboratory

- Bioinformatics Training Unit -

Bioinformatics Center Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University

[ English | Japanese ]

Evolutionary studies based on molecular biology is called "molecular evolutionary biology", which is one of the origins of the current bioinformatics. Living organisms have acquired wide variety of functions during the course of the evolution by changing the information encoded by the genomes. Inversely, reconstruction of the evolutionary history related to the functions would bring us a great insight into the acquired functions and the life. Furthermore, such evolutionary information is useful for practical fields such as drug design and proteins engineering. We develop new methodologies with evolutionary information, to extract biological knowledge from various molecular biological data including sequence and structure data of individual genes and proteins, genome data, and expression profile data. We also analyze the data of molecular biology from the evolutionary viewpoint, to obtain novel biological knowledge.

Structural Alignment Project : ASH

Multiple Sequence Alignment MAFFT

Staff

	Name	e-Mail	Phone	Room
Associate Professor	Keiichi Kuma	kuma@kuicr	3094	CB308
Instructor	Hisako Ichihara	ichihara@kuicr	3093	CB310
Student	Tetsuya Sato	sato@kuicr	3119	CB310




Visiting Associate	Wataru Nemoto PhD (NAIST)	wane@kuicr	3119	CB310




Professor, Kyushu University	Hiroyuki Toh	toh@kuicr	3092	CB328
		toh@bioreg



		kuicr --> kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp bioreg --> bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp	+81-774-38-