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Hideya Kawaji

Hideya Kawaji

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64
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32300
World Ranking
2739
National Ranking
110

Overview

Hideya Kawaji is affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and has an extensive publication record in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also in medicine.

The main fields of study covered by Kawaji's work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these broad areas, Kawaji's research focuses on subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Immunology
  • Genetics
  • Neurology

Kawaji's main research topics encompass:

  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Among Kawaji's recent papers are studies published between 2020 and 2024, including:

  • Functional annotation of human long noncoding RNAs via molecular phenotyping, 2020, Genome Research
  • Systematic assessment of long-read RNA-seq methods for transcript identification and quantification, 2024, Nature Methods
  • FANTOM enters 20th year: expansion of transcriptomic atlases and functional annotation of non-coding RNAs, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • CDK1 dependent phosphorylation of hTERT contributes to cancer progression, 2020, Nature Communications
  • DUX4 is a multifunctional factor priming human embryonic genome activation, 2022, iScience

The frequent publication venues for Kawaji's work reflect a focus on molecular biology and genomics, with multiple publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Genome Research
  • Nucleic Acids Research

Kawaji often collaborates with a network of coauthors, including:

  • Masayoshi Itoh
  • Yoshihide Hayashizaki
  • Piero Carninci
  • Yasuhiro Murakawa
  • Chikashi Terao

Best Publications

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

  • An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues

    Robin Andersson;Claudia Gebhard;Irene Miguel-Escalada;Ilka Hoof

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution

    Piero Carninci;Albin Sandelin;Boris Lenhard;Boris Lenhard;Shintaro Katayama

  • The Systems Biology Graphical Notation

    Nicolas Le Novere;Michael Hucka;Huaiyu Mi;Stuart Moodie

  • An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5′ ends

    Chung Chau Hon;Jordan A. Ramilowski;Jayson Harshbarger;Nicolas Bertin;Nicolas Bertin

  • Cap analysis gene expression for high-throughput analysis of transcriptional starting point and identification of promoter usage.

    Toshiyuki Shiraki;Shinji Kondo;Shintaro Katayama;Kazunori Waki

  • Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection

    J. Kawai;A. Shinagawa;K. Shibata;M. Yoshino

  • An Atlas of Combinatorial Transcriptional Regulation in Mouse and Man

    Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci;Shintaro Katayama

  • The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories

    Damian Smedley;Syed Haider;Steffen Durinck;Luca Pandini

  • Gateways to the FANTOM5 promoter level mammalian expression atlas

    Marina Lizio;Jayson Harshbarger;Hisashi Shimoji;Jessica Severin

  • A draft network of ligand–receptor-mediated multicellular signalling in human

    Jordan A. Ramilowski;Tatyana Goldberg;Jayson Harshbarger;Edda Kloppmann

  • Transcribed enhancers lead waves of coordinated transcription in transitioning mammalian cells

    Erik Arner;Carsten O. Daub;Kristoffer Vitting-Seerup;Robin Andersson

  • ChIP-Atlas: a data-mining suite powered by full integration of public ChIP-seq data

    Shinya Oki;Tazro Ohta;Go Shioi;Hideki Hatanaka

  • An integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters in human and mouse.

    Derek De Rie;Imad Abugessaisa;Tanvir Alam;Erik Arner

  • The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

    Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

  • Hierarchical folding and reorganization of chromosomes are linked to transcriptional changes in cellular differentiation

    James Fraser;Carmelo Ferrai;Carmelo Ferrai;Andrea M Chiariello;Markus Schueler

  • Conservation and divergence in Toll-like receptor 4-regulated gene expression in primary human versus mouse macrophages

    Kate Schroder;Katharine M Irvine;Martin S Taylor;Nilesh J Bokil

  • Hidden layers of human small RNAs.

    Hideya Kawaji;Mari Nakamura;Yukari Takahashi;Albin Sandelin

Frequent Co-Authors

Alistair R. R. Forrest
Alistair R. R. Forrest Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Timo Lassmann
Timo Lassmann Telethon Kids Institute
Carsten O. Daub
Carsten O. Daub Karolinska Institute
David A. Hume
David A. Hume University of Queensland
Albin Sandelin
Albin Sandelin University of Copenhagen
Christine A. Wells
Christine A. Wells University of Melbourne

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