The 58th In Silico Megabank Research Seminar will be held on Friday, March 6. This Time, we will be welcoming Dr. Shingo Tsuji, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo as our lecturer, and he will be speaking on “Facts and Future of the Data Analysis in the Field of Life Science”.

・Date: Friday, March 6, 2015
・Time: 4:00 pm ‐ 5:30 pm
・Venue: Small Conference Room 2(3rd Floor), Tohoku Medical Megabank Building
・Title: Facts and Future of the Data Analysis in the Field of Life Science
・Lecturer: Shingo Tsuji  （Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo）

＊This lecture is transferable as a class in the medical research-related lecture course.

・Abstract: In this seminar, my own research results and experience are introduced and I would like to discuss with you on the directionality of that Computational biology should take. The seminar will cover a broad range of topics, and the followings are some of them. As the example of forecast using machine learning algorithms, effect prediction of anticancer agents by Random forests method is introduced. As a case of multi-omics data analysis of cancer, such analyses of 11 types of cancer using the analysis of gene expression data and DNA methylation data for colon cancer and Deep Learning are introduced. Network is often used as a channel of expressing biological knowledge, and I would like to discuss how to extract knowledge from such network. Finally, I would like to consider the social responsibility of Computational biology as presently genomic information is often applied into medicine and health care industry.

・Organizer: Naoki Nariai, Masao Nagasaki