The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has established an open innovation laboratory (* 1) at Waseda University to analyze big data of biological systems.This is the fourth case of AIST's laboratory installation and the first time for a private university.

 According to AIST, it will be set up at Waseda University Nishi-Waseda Campus.By combining Waseda University's leading biosystem big data in Japan with AIST's information analysis technology, we will understand the mechanism of life phenomena as a system, and proceed with research and development aimed at elucidating the mechanism of diseases and contributing to medical care.

 AIST is planning research in the future
■ Elucidation of disease onset mechanism from single-cell data analyzed behavior on a cell-by-cell basis
■ Development of biological modeling technology from trace tissue data
■ Establishment of disease-related factor identification technology from intestinal flora data
-And so on.

 At the same time, by building an industry-academia-government network, we will strengthen basic research through the participation of private companies and start research on cutting-edge biometric information analysis technology that will become the world standard.

 Waseda University has the largest amount of behavior analysis accumulated in each cell in Japan, and excels in metagenome analysis that comprehensively analyzes the entire bacterial genome and basic research that creates new life data, so it was selected as the laboratory installation site. Was done.

* 1 Open Innovation Laboratory AIST has set up research bases at universities with outstanding research results, and is conducting intensive research in collaboration with universities, aiming to accelerate its practical application.

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