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Shimizu Lab
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A bioinformatics lab that uses computers to analyze biological information such as genomes.
AboutAbout the lab
Uncovering how life works from biological big data
Shimizu Lab conducts research that uses computers to analyze biological information such as genomes and to clarify how life works.
In recent years, the performance of DNA sequencers, the devices that read DNA sequences, has improved, and the volume of biological data keeps growing explosively.
The lab develops new information science techniques for handling this enormous amount of data.
The lab also works on privacy-protection technologies for securely analyzing genomes, which are themselves personal information.
Key terms
- Genome
- The complete set of genetic information that an organism has
- Sequencer
- A device that reads the order of DNA bases (the base sequence)
- Privacy-preserving data mining
- Techniques for extracting useful information from large amounts of data while protecting personal information
NewsLab news
A paper by Prof. Shimizu and colleagues was published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
A paper by Prof. Shimizu and colleagues was published in Bioinformatics
Individual interviews and an open house for lab assignment were held
ResearchResearch themes
Bioinformatics is a research field that uses methods from computer science to analyze biological information such as genomes and to clarify how life works. Shimizu Lab develops new technologies to make use of the explosively growing volume of biological data.
*Illustrative imageAdvancing Genome Sequence Analysis
Treating a genome as a sequence of four kinds of letters, the lab studies algorithms that make sequence alignment, clustering, and the construction of reference genome graphs more efficient.
*Illustrative imagePrivacy Protection for Biological Data
Because the human genome contains information that can identify individuals, the lab researches privacy-preserving data mining techniques for analyzing it securely.
*Illustrative imagePredicting Protein Structures and Interactions
The lab also works on predicting intrinsically disordered regions and protein substrate-binding sites, and on analyzing protein–protein interaction networks.
MembersFaculty
The members of Shimizu Lab consist of faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKana Shimizu
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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: “DNA sequencing interferogram” 不明 / Public domain (cropped)
- Advancing Genome Sequence Analysis: “PaperTapes-5and8Hole” TedColes / Public domain (cropped)
- Privacy Protection for Biological Data: “Red onion cross section 03” Amada44 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Predicting Protein Structures and Interactions: “HIV protease with bound ritonavir” TimVickers / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Sako Lab): “Safe Deposit Boxes” Fixedsun / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yamana Lab): “Diamons Parallel Coordinates Plot” Kakomat / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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