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BDR researchers coming from diverse research fields are working together to achieve higher goals.

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About Us

About Us

Exploring the scientific foundations of life through interdisciplinary approaches to address society’s problems.

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Team Leader
Koichi Takahashi Ph.D.

Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Computing

LocationKobe / Integrated Innovation Bldg

        and  Osaka / Quantitative Biology Buildings

E-mailktakahashi[at]riken.jp

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Accelerating life sciences by combining simulation, robotics and brain-inspired AI

We are pursuing two different but mutually interconnected research interests: research and development of biologically inspired computing architectures including artificial neural networks and applying such advanced information processing technologies to life science research. More specifically, we are working on development of BriCA (Brain-inspired Computing Architecture), a high-performance software platform for brain-inspired computing, development of high-performance genome-scale simulation software platform E-Cell System, and automating various processes in biological experiments by combining robotics and AI.

Research Theme

  • Genome-scale cell simulation software platform
  • Robotic biology
  • Brain-inspired computing architectures

Selected Publications

Kanda GN, Tsuzuki T, Terada M, et al.
Robotic search for optimal cell culture in regenerative medicine.
eLife 11, e77007 Tue Jun 28 00:00:00 JST 2022 doi: 10.7554/eLife.77007

Ochiai K, Motozawa N, Terada M, et al.
A Variable Scheduling Maintenance Culture Platform for Mammalian Cells.
SLAS technology 26(2), 209-217 Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 JST 2021 doi: 10.1177/2472630320972109

Watabe M, Yoshimura H, Arjunan SNV, et al.
Signaling activations through G-protein-coupled-receptor aggregations.
Phys Rev E. 102, 032413 Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 JST 2020 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.032413

Yachie N, Natsume T, Takahashi K, et al.
Robotic crowd biology with Maholo LabDroids.
Nature Biotechnology 35(4), 310-312 Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 JST 2017 doi: 10.1038/nbt.3758

Yamakawa H, Arakawa N, Takahashi K, et al.
Reinterpreting The Cortical Circuit
Pre-proceedings of the IJCAI-17 Workshop on Architectures for Generality & Autonomy Sat Aug 19 00:00:00 JST 2017

Iwamoto K, Shindo Y, Takahashi K.
Modeling Cellular Noise Underlying Heterogeneous Cell Responses in the Epidermal Growth Factor Signaling Pathway.
Plos Computational Biology 12(11), e1005222 Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 JST 2016 doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005222

Itaya K, Takahashi K, Nakamura M, et al.
BriCA: A modular software platform for whole brain architecture
Neural information processing – 23rd international conference, ICONIP Sun Oct 16 00:00:00 JST 2016

Shindo Y, Iwamoto K, Mouri K, et al.
Conversion of graded phosphorylation into switch-like nuclear translocation via autoregulatory mechanisms in ERK signalling.
Nature Communications 7, 10485 Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 JST 2016 doi: 10.1038/ncomms10485

Karr JR, Takahashi K, Funahashi A.
The principles of whole-cell modeling.
Current Opinion in Microbiology 27, 18-24 Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 JST 2015 doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2015.06.004

Watabe M, Arjunan SNV, Fukushima S, et al.
A Computational Framework for Bioimaging Simulation.
Plos One 10(7), e0130089 Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 JST 2015 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130089

Shimo H, Arjunan SNV, Machiyama H, et al.
Particle Simulation of Oxidation Induced Band 3 Clustering in Human Erythrocytes.
Plos Computational Biology 11(6), UNSP e1004 Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 JST 2015 doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004210

Kaizu K, de Ronde W, Paijmans J, et al.
The Berg-Purcell Limit Revisited.
Biophysical Journal 106(4), 976-985 Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 JST 2014 doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.12.030

Hihara S, Pack CG, Kaizu K, et al.
Local Nucleosome Dynamics Facilitate Chromatin Accessibility in Living Mammalian Cells.
Cell Reports 2(6), 1645-1656 Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 JST 2012 doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.11.008

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