Daisuke Kihara
Daisuke Kihara
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Joined department: 2003

Education:
BS, Biochemistry
University of Tokyo (1994)
MS, Bioinformatics
Kyoto University (1996)
PhD, Bioinformatics
Kyoto University (1999)

Dr. Kihara's research interest is in the area of bioinformatics. In the last decade, a large amount of biological data, such as genome/protein sequences, protein 3D structures, and pathway data have become available. This data now enables us to employ comprehensive analysis of relationship between protein sequence, structure and function, evolution of protein families, pathways, and organisms. Especially, he is focusing on developing computational methods to predict and analyze protein structure/function, pathway structure, and their applications in genome-scale or pathway/network scale. He has worked recently on protein structure prediction, protein global/local shape comparison, development of prediction method of transmembrane proteins, and its application to genome sequences.

Selected Publications
David La & Daisuke Kihara, "A novel method for protein-protein interaction site prediction using phylogenetic substitution models", Proteins, Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, in press, (2011).
Meghana Chitale, Shriphani Palakodety & Daisuke Kihara, "Quantification of protein group coherence and pathway assignment using functional association.", BMC Bioinformatics, 12: 373, (2011).
Hao Chen & Daisuke Kihara, "Effect of using suboptimal alignments in template-based protein structure prediction", Proteins, Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 79: 315-334. (2011).
Research Funding
Daisuke Kihara, Template-Based Protein Structure Prediction Beyond Sequence Homology, National Science Foundation, 7/1/2008-6/30/2013.
Daisuke Kihara and Karthik Ramani, Surface Shape Based Screening of Large Protein Databases PHS-NIH NAT INST of General Medical Science, National Institutes of Health, 9/30/2005-8/31/2012.
Wojciech Szpankowski, Ananth Y. Grama, and Daisuke Kihara, Information Transfer in Biological Systems, National Science Foundation, 7/1/2008-6/30/2012.
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