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Kiyoshi Asai

Kiyoshi Asai

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
14968
World Ranking
15414
National Ranking
1090

Overview

Kiyoshi Asai is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has a body of research primarily situated within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work covers significant subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Spectroscopy, Artificial Intelligence, and Cancer Research.

Their research spans multiple topics, such as:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA research and splicing
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Genomics and chromatin dynamics
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Bacterial genetics and biotechnology

Key recent publications illustrate the diversity and focus of their research contributions:

  • "PBSIM2: a simulator for long-read sequencers with a novel generative model of quality scores," 2020, Bioinformatics
  • "PBSIM3: a simulator for all types of PacBio and ONT long reads," 2022, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • "m 6 A modification of HSATIII lncRNAs regulates temperature-dependent splicing," 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • "Exchange of endogenous and heterogeneous yeast terminators in Pichia pastoris to tune mRNA stability and gene expression," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "DDX41 coordinates RNA splicing and transcriptional elongation to prevent DNA replication stress in hematopoietic cells," 2022, Leukemia

The frequent coauthors in Asai's publications include:

  • Goro Terai
  • Junichi Iwakiri
  • Yukiteru Ono
  • Peter Arner
  • Michiaki Hamada

The main publication venues where Asai's work appears most often are:

  • Bioinformatics
  • NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

    William C. Nierman;William C. Nierman;Arnab Pain;Michael J. Anderson;Jennifer R. Wortman;Jennifer R. Wortman

  • Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae

    James E. Galagan;Sarah E. Calvo;Christina Cuomo;Li Jun Ma

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of Aspergillus oryzae

    Masayuki Machida;Kiyoshi Asai;Motoaki Sano;Toshihiro Tanaka

  • The Physics of the B Factories

    A. J. Bevan;B. Golob;Th Mannel;S. Prell

  • Drosophila endogenous small RNAs bind to Argonaute 2 in somatic cells

    Yoshinori Kawamura;Kuniaki Saito;Kuniaki Saito;Taishin Kin;Yukiteru Ono

  • A measurement of the branching fraction for the inclusive B→Xsγ decays with the Belle detector

    K. Abe;I. Adachi;Byoung Sup Ahn;H. Aihara

  • A regulatory circuit for piwi by the large Maf gene traffic jam in Drosophila

    Kuniaki Saito;Sachi Inagaki;Toutai Mituyama;Yoshinori Kawamura;Yoshinori Kawamura

  • PBSIM: PacBio reads simulator--toward accurate genome assembly.

    Yukiteru Ono;Kiyoshi Asai;Michiaki Hamada

  • IPknot: fast and accurate prediction of RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots using integer programming

    Kengo Sato;Yuki Kato;Michiaki Hamada;Tatsuya Akutsu

  • CentroidFold: a web server for RNA secondary structure prediction

    Kengo Sato;Michiaki Hamada;Kiyoshi Asai;Kiyoshi Asai;Toutai Mituyama

  • The voltage-sensitive sodium channel is a bell-shaped molecule with several cavities.

    Chikara Sato;Yutaka Ueno;Kiyoshi Asai;Katsutoshi Takahashi

  • Characterization of endogenous human Argonautes and their miRNA partners in RNA silencing

    Asuka Azuma-Mukai;Hideo Oguri;Toutai Mituyama;Zhi Rong Qian

  • Marginalized kernels for biological sequences.

    Koji Tsuda;Taishin Kin;Kiyoshi Asai

  • Prediction of RNA secondary structure using generalized centroid estimators

    Michiaki Hamada;Michiaki Hamada;Hisanori Kiryu;Kengo Sato;Toutai Mituyama

  • Genomics of Aspergillus oryzae

    Tetsuo Kobayashi;Keietsu Abe;Kiyoshi Asai;Katsuya Gomi

  • Prediction of protein secondary structure by the hidden Markov model.

    Kiyoshi Asai;Satoru Hayamizu;Ken'ichi Handa

  • fRNAdb: a platform for mining/annotating functional RNA candidates from non-coding RNA sequences

    Taishin Kin;Kouichirou Yamada;Goro Terai;Hiroaki Okida

  • The Functional RNA Database 3.0: databases to support mining and annotation of functional RNAs

    Toutai Mituyama;Kouichirou Yamada;Emi Hattori;Hiroaki Okida

  • A fast structural multiple alignment method for long RNA sequences.

    Yasuo Tabei;Yasuo Tabei;Hisanori Kiryu;Taishin Kin;Kiyoshi Asai;Kiyoshi Asai

  • Measurement of the CP violation parameter sin2ø 1 in B d 0 meson decays

    A. Abashian;K. Abe;I. Adachi;Byoung Sup Ahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Koji Tsuda
Koji Tsuda University of Tokyo
Martin C. Frith
Martin C. Frith University of Tokyo
Yasubumi Sakakibara
Yasubumi Sakakibara Keio University
Tetsuro Hirose
Tetsuro Hirose Osaka University
Jennifer R. Wortman
Jennifer R. Wortman Broad Institute
William C. Nierman
William C. Nierman J. Craig Venter Institute
Katsuya Gomi
Katsuya Gomi Tohoku University
L. E. Piilonen
L. E. Piilonen Virginia Tech
James E. Galagan
James E. Galagan Boston University
F. Takasaki
F. Takasaki High Energy Accelerator Research Organization

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