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Last modified date:2009.10.23
Kazutaka Katoh
Associate Professor

E-Mail

Phone

092-642-6967

Fax

092-642-6765

Academic Degree

PhD

Field of Specialization

Molecular evolution, Bioinformatics

Research

Research Interests

  • Study of multiple sequence alignment algorithms
    keyword : Dynamic Programming, FFT, amino acid sequence, nucleotide sequence, protein, DNA
    1996.04.
  • Molecular evolutionary analysis on origin of Eukaryotes
    keyword : molecular phylogeny, maximum likelihood method, eocyte, archaea
    1998.04~2002.03.
  • Heuristic approach to search the maximum likelihood tree
    keyword : molecular phylogeny, maximum likelihood, genetic algorithm
    1998.04~2002.03.
  • Molecular evolutionary analysis on phylogenetic relationship of jawed vertebrates
    keyword : molecular phylogeny, maximum likelihood, coelacanth, lungfish, amphibia, reptile
    2004.04.

Academic Activities

Reports

1. Multiple Sequence Alignments: the Next Generation.

Papers

1. Katoh K, Toh H,Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program.,Briefings in Bioinformatics,9:276-285,2008.07.
2. Katoh K, Misawa K, Kuma K, Miyata T,MAFFT: a novel method for rapid multiple sequence alignment based on fast Fourier transform,Nucleic Acids Res.,30:3059-66.,2002.07
http://nar.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/14/3059.
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