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Hiroaki Kitano

Hiroaki Kitano

Overview

Hiroaki Kitano is affiliated with Sony in Japan and focuses their research primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work extensively covers areas including Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research topics encompass a diverse range of interests such as Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Hiroaki Kitano has published recent papers in multiple high-profile venues. Some notable works include:

  • Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning, 2022, Nature
  • SBML Level 3: an extensible format for the exchange and reuse of biological models, 2020, Molecular Systems Biology
  • COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Nobel Turing Challenge: creating the engine for scientific discovery, 2021, npj Systems Biology and Applications
  • Elucidating gene expression adaptation of phylogenetically divergent coral holobionts under heat stress, 2021, Nature Communications

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Ayako Yachie-Kinoshita
  • Samik Ghosh
  • Olaf Wolkenhauer
  • Alfonso Valencia
  • Charles Auffray

Hiroaki Kitano's work has been published in various recurring venues, with multiple publications in the following journals:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): 5 publications
  • Scientific Reports: 4 publications
  • Nature: 3 publications
  • npj Systems Biology and Applications: 3 publications
  • Scientific Data: 2 publications

Best Publications

  • Systems biology: a brief overview.

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • Computational systems biology

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative

    Hiroaki Kitano;Minoru Asada;Yasuo Kuniyoshi;Itsuki Noda

  • The Systems Biology Graphical Notation

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

  • Towards a theory of biological robustness.

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • The PANTHER database of protein families, subfamilies, functions and pathways.

    Huaiyu Mi;Betty Lazareva-Ulitsky;Rozina Loo;Anish Kejariwal

  • RoboCup: A Challenge Problem for AI

    Hiroaki Kitano;Minoru Asada;Yasuo Kuniyoshi;Itsuki Noda

  • CellDesigner: a process diagram editor for gene-regulatory and biochemical networks

    Akira Funahashi;Mineo Morohashi;Hiroaki Kitano;Naoki Tanimura

  • Visualization of omics data for systems biology

    Nils Gehlenborg;Seán I O'Donoghue;Nitin S Baliga;Alexander Goesmann

  • RoboCup Rescue: search and rescue in large-scale disasters as a domain for autonomous agents research

    H. Kitano;S. Tadokoro;I. Noda;H. Matsubara

  • Cancer as a robust system: implications for anticancer therapy.

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • CellDesigner 3.5: A Versatile Modeling Tool for Biochemical Networks

    A. Funahashi;Y. Matsuoka;A. Jouraku;M. Morohashi

  • Using process diagrams for the graphical representation of biological networks.

    Hiroaki Kitano;Akira Funahashi;Yukiko Matsuoka;Kanae Oda

  • Combining machine learning systems and multiple docking simulation packages to improve docking prediction reliability for network pharmacology.

    Kun-Yi Hsin;Samik Ghosh;Hiroaki Kitano

  • The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge 97

    Hiroaki Kitano;Milind Tambe;Peter Stone;Manuela M. Veloso

  • A comprehensive map of the toll-like receptor signaling network

    Kanae Oda;Hiroaki Kitano

  • Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning

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  • 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

  • RoboCup Rescue: a grand challenge for multi-agent systems

    H. Kitano

  • RoboCup rescue: A grand challenge for multiagent and intelligent systems

    Hiroaki Kitano;Satoshi Tadokoro

  • Development of an Autonomous Quadruped Robot for Robot Entertainment

    Masahiro Fujita;Hiroaki Kitano

  • Software for systems biology: from tools to integrated platforms

    Samik Ghosh;Yukiko Matsuoka;Yoshiyuki Asai;Kun‑Yi Hsin

  • SBML Level 3: an extensible format for the exchange and reuse of biological models

    Sarah M. Keating;Sarah M. Keating;Dagmar Waltemath;Matthias König;Fengkai Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi G. Okuno
Hiroshi G. Okuno Waseda University
Satoru Miyano
Satoru Miyano Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Kazuhiro Nakadai
Kazuhiro Nakadai Tokyo Institute of Technology
James A. Hendler
James A. Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Eiichiro Sumita
Eiichiro Sumita National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Lori Levin
Lori Levin Carnegie Mellon University

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