Month: June 2024

AJACS Call for Registration

Dr Ko Sugawara will lecture at the Integrated Database Workshop: AJACS, organised by the JST – NBDC. You can learn how to think about your first foray into biological image analysis and how to use the main image analysis tools in a practical way.

The registration is now open on their website.

AJACS ‘Know, Learn and Use BioImage Analysis’

We look forward to your participation.

Behind the Paper “Prototyping an Ontological Framework for Cellular Senescence Mechanisms: A Homeostasis Imbalance Perspective”

Dr. Yuki Yamagata (R-IH Life Science Data Sharing Unit) et al. published a paper in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making on the development of an otology related to COVID-19 infectious processes. We published a video to introduce our study on YouTube.

We developed the HoIP ontology to organize cellular senescence knowledge from a homeostasis disturbance perspective. HoIP was assessed, and relationships between cellular senescence, COVID-19, and diabetes were inferred. This framework elucidates mechanisms linking cellular and organismal aging. Lean more about the study at https://go.nature.com/3yLP0QO.

Reference

Yamagata, Y., Fukuyama, T., Onami, S. et al. Prototyping an Ontological Framework for Cellular Senescence Mechanisms: A Homeostasis Imbalance Perspective. Sci Data 11, 485 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03331-y

[Press Release] Development and publication of the zebrafish brain gene expression database

Dr Towako Hiraki-Kajiyama(Assistant professor at Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University, former researcher at RIKEN CBS) and Yoshihiro Yoshihara (TL at Riken CBS) et al. with Drs Hiroya Itoga and Shuichi Onami established the database for scanned data of brain sections of zebrafish.

The database uses SSBD (https://ssbd.riken.jp/) and OMERO (https://openmicroscopy.org) as infrastructures.The database and anatomical findings will contribute to future neuroscience research using zebrafish.

Learn more about the study on Press Release from RIKEN. (In Japanese only)

Reference

Hiraki-Kajiyama, T., Miyasaka, N., Ando, R., Wakisaka, N., Itoga, H., Onami, H. I. S., & Yoshihara, Y. (2024). An atlas and database of neuropeptide gene expression in the adult zebrafish forebrain. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 532, e25619. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.25619