
Team Director
Haruka Ozaki
Ph.D.
Laboratory for AI Biology
LocationKobe / Integrated Innovation Building
E-mailai-biology@ml.riken.jp
Through AI biology, we aim to create an environment in life sciences research where AI and robotics are a commonplace part of everyday work. By developing, implementing, and validating these technologies in real life settings for life science research, we seek to demonstrate a range of new possibilities achievable only through non-human approaches like AI and robotics. Furthermore, we aspire to establish new theories and academic disciplines with these findings.
Research Theme
- AI Biology
- Laboratory Automation
- Research Automation
- Informatics for cell
Selected Publications
Matsuzawa R, Kawahara D, Kashima M, et al.
tomoseqr: A Bioconductor package for spatial reconstruction and visualization of 3D gene expression patterns based on RNA tomography.
PLOS ONE
20(1), e0311296 (2025)
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311296
Ochiai K, Tahara-Arai Y, Kato A, et al.
Automating Care by Self‐maintainability for Full Laboratory Automation.
Digital Discovery
(2025)
doi: 10.1039/D5DD00151J
Nakata S, Iwasaki K, Funato H, et al.
Neuronal subtype-specific transcriptomic changes in the cerebral neocortex associated with sleep pressure.
Neuroscience Research
207, 13-25 (2024)
doi: 10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.004
Tahara S, Tsuchiya T, Matsumoto H, Ozaki H.
Transcription factor-binding k-mer analysis clarifies the cell type dependency of binding specificities and cis-regulatory SNPs in humans.
BMC Genomics
24(1), 597 (2023)
doi: 10.1186/s12864-023-09692-9
Arai Y, Takahashi K, Horinouchi T, et al.
SAGAS: Simulated annealing and greedy algorithm scheduler for laboratory automation.
SLAS Technology
28(4), 264-277 (2023)
doi: 10.1016/j.slast.2023.03.001
Inagaki T, Kato A, Takahashi K, et al.
LLMs can generate robotic scripts from goal-oriented instructions in biological laboratory automation.
arXiv
(2023)
doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.10267
Tsuchiya T, Hori H, Ozaki H.
CCPLS reveals cell-type-specific spatial dependence of transcriptomes in single cells.
Bioinformatics
38(21), 4868-4877 (2022)
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac599
Itoh TD, Horinouchi T, Uchida H, et al.
Optimal Scheduling for Laboratory Automation of Life Science Experiments with Time Constraints.
SLAS Technology
26(6), 650-659 (2021)
doi: 10.1177/24726303211021790
Minoshima F, Ozaki H, Odaka H, Tateno H.
Integrated analysis of glycan and RNA in single cells.
iScience
24(8), 102882 (2021)
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102882
Ozaki H, Hayashi T, Umeda M, Nikaido I.
Millefy: visualizing cell-to-cell heterogeneity in read coverage of single-cell RNA sequencing datasets.
BMC Genomics
21(1), 177 (2020)
doi: 10.1186/s12864-020-6542-z
Members
Haruka Ozaki
Team Director
Yoshinori Hayakawa
Research Fellow
Saeko Tahara
Research Fellow
Hirofumi Kariyayama
Visiting Researcher
Yu Chinen
Research Part-time Worker I
Yuya Tahara
Student Trainee
Ryosuke Matsuzawa
Student Trainee
Ryo Ishibashi
Student Trainee
Haruto Ijiri
Student Trainee
Kota Murakami
Student Trainee
Junnosuke Imai
Student Trainee
Koki Tachibana
Student Trainee
Genki Kanda
Senior Visiting Scientist
Miwa Elharar
Assistant


