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(ISCB), and a member of Association of Asian Societies for Bioinformatics (AASBi). Supporting corporate members include the Japanese companies Hitachi, Fujitsu and

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. Since 2001, the JSBi and

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have awarded the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics Prize for outstanding young scientists in bioinformatics.

Presidents

The following people have been president of the JSBi: # Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University (1999–2004) # Satoru Miyano,

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(2004–2005) # Yukihiro Eguchi, Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd (2005–2006) # Kenta Nakai,

(2006–2008) # Osamu Gotoh, Kyoto University (2008–2010) # Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University (2010–2013) # Kiyoshi Asai (scientist),

(2013–2015) # Kentaro Shimizu (scientist),

(2015–2017) # Kengo Kinoshita,

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(2017–2019) # Wataru Iwasaki,

(2019–)

References

External links

* Bioinformatics organizations Organizations established in 1999 Scientific organizations based in Japan 1999 establishments in Japan {{Japan-org-stub