Toshiaki Katayama

Japan Japan

Project Assistant Professor at Database Center for Life Science

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

Bioinformatics researcher working at the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS; http://dbcls.rois.ac.jp/en/). I have been organizing the annual international codefest, BioHackathon (http://www.biohackathon.org/), to accelerate further integration and interoperability of the databases and services in life sciences. My products in DBCLS include TogoWS (http://togows.org/) and TogoDB (http://togodb.org/). Currently working on to create brand new integrated genome databases, for example TogoGenome (http://togogenome.org/), based on the Semantic Web technologies. Also, I'd collaborate with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH; http://genomicsandhealth.org/) activity especially ...