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Kiryu Lab
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A lab that seeks to understand life by using computers to analyze ever-growing amounts of biological data.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading the mechanisms of life from massive biological data
The Kiryu Lab studies bioinformatics, which uses computers to analyze explosively growing biological data in order to make biological discoveries.
It uses information technologies such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
The lab also puts effort into building computational models of organisms, which the analysis requires.
It aims to deeply understand life as an integrated system and to lead to technologies that freely control life at the cellular level.
Key terms
- Bioinformatics
- The field that uses computers to analyze biological data and investigate the properties of life. Also called biological information science.
- Single-cell RNA-seq
- A method that measures, for each individual cell, which genes are active and how active they are, all at once.
- RNA secondary structure
- The folded shape formed when a single-stranded RNA pairs up bases within itself.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies methods for comprehensively analyzing large-scale data on the components of life, including not only the genome but also RNA, proteins, and video images of cells. It builds advanced mathematical models of life and connects them to data.
*Illustrative imageEstimating how far cells have differentiated
The lab developed a technique that fits models describing the internal states of cells as stochastic processes to single-cell RNA-seq data, estimating how far each individual stimulated cell has differentiated.
*Illustrative imagePlant growth and the environment
The lab develops a new version of the theory of the Kalman filter, which is used in applications such as aircraft autopilots, and uses machine learning to link the cellular states of plants such as rice with environmental factors such as temperature and solar radiation.
*Illustrative imageRNA structure and translation regulation
The lab develops methods that combine RNA secondary structure models with next-generation sequencing data to estimate structural changes caused by chemical modifications and the structures to which proteins bind readily.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kiryu Lab are faculty, doctoral and master's students, and secretaries.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorHisanori KiryuPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “RNA structure (2)” Thomas Shafee / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Estimating how far cells have differentiated: “Differentiation of Stem Cells Into Neurons” Axislit / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Plant growth and the environment: “Rice plants” Gill Prabhnoor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- RNA structure and translation regulation: “RNA secondary structure mascRNA” Ppgardne / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kasahara Lab): “MinION portable sequencer” Mongan A.E. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Frith Lab): “DNA double helix 45” Jerome Walker,Dennis Myts / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Sugimura Lab): “Drosophila Melanogaster Wing” Kecko05 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tsuda Lab): “Caffeine molecule ball from xtal (1)” Jynto (more from this user) / CC0 (cropped)
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