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Shigehiko Kanaya is affiliated with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. The main fields of their research encompass Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work also spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Infectious Diseases.

The research topics frequently addressed by Kanaya include Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, AI in cancer detection, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Gene expression and cancer classification, and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics.

Kanaya has contributed to numerous scientific articles with notable publications such as:

  • Potential anti-COVID-19 agents, cepharanthine and nelfinavir, and their usage for combination treatment (2021, iScience)
  • Multidrug treatment with nelfinavir and cepharanthine against COVID-19 (2020, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • Divergence of metabolites in three phylogenetically close Monascus species (M. pilosus, M. ruber, and M. purpureus) based on secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (2020, BMC Genomics)
  • Evaluating cepharanthine analogues as natural drugs against SARS-CoV-2 (2021, FEBS Open Bio)
  • Knowledge-based structural models of SARS-CoV-2 proteins and their complexes with potential drugs (2020, FEBS Letters)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Naoaki Ono (62 coauthored works)
  • Md. Altaf-Ul-Amin (36 coauthored works)
  • Ming Huang (34 coauthored works)
  • Zheng Chen (16 coauthored works)
  • Md. Altaf-Ul-Amin (12 coauthored works)

Kanaya's research has been published in various venues, with recurring contributions to journals such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 6 publications
  • Life with 4 publications
  • Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry with 4 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 3 publications
  • Molecular Informatics with 3 publications

They have also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Book Publisher International (a part of SCIENCEDOMAIN International): Recent Research Advances in Biology Vol. 2 (2020).

Best Publications

  • Global landscape of protein complexes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Nevan J. Krogan;Gerard Cagney;Gerard Cagney;Haiyuan Yu;Gouqing Zhong

  • MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences.

    Hisayuki Horai;Masanori Arita;Masanori Arita;Shigehiko Kanaya;Yoshito Nihei

  • Integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics for understanding of global responses to nutritional stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Masami Yokota Hirai;Mitsuru Yano;Dayan B. Goodenowe;Shigehiko Kanaya

  • Sequence-specific error profile of Illumina sequencers

    Kensuke Nakamura;Taku Oshima;Takuya Morimoto;Shun Ikeda

  • KNApSAcK family databases: integrated metabolite-plant species databases for multifaceted plant research.

    Farit Mochamad Afendi;Taketo Okada;Mami Yamazaki;Aki Hirai-Morita

  • Studies of codon usage and tRNA genes of 18 unicellular organisms and quantification of Bacillus subtilis tRNAs: gene expression level and species-specific diversity of codon usage based on multivariate analysis.

    Shigehiko Kanaya;Yuko Yamada;Yoshihiro Kudo;Toshimichi Ikemura

  • Elucidation of Gene-to-Gene and Metabolite-to-Gene Networks in Arabidopsis by Integration of Metabolomics and Transcriptomics

    Masami Yokota Hirai;Marion Klein;Yuuta Fujikawa;Mitsuru Yano

  • Development and implementation of an algorithm for detection of protein complexes in large interaction networks

    Altaf-Ul-Amin;Yoko Shinbo;Kenji Mihara;Ken Kurokawa

  • Large-scale identification of protein-protein interaction of Escherichia coli K-12.

    Mohammad Arifuzzaman;Maki Maeda;Aya Itoh;Kensaku Nishikata

  • Transcriptome analysis of all two‐component regulatory system mutants of Escherichia coli K‐12

    Taku Oshima;Hirofumi Aiba;Yasushi Masuda;Shigehiko Kanaya

  • The R‐type pyocin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is related to P2 phage, and the F‐type is related to lambda phage

    Keisuke Nakayama;Kayoko Takashima;Hiroshi Ishihara;Tomoyuki Shinomiya

  • Codon usage and tRNA genes in eukaryotes: correlation of codon usage diversity with translation efficiency and with CG-dinucleotide usage as assessed by multivariate analysis.

    Shigehiko Kanaya;Yuko Yamada;Makoto Kinouchi;Yoshihiro Kudo

  • Codon usage tabulated from the international DNA sequence databases

    Yasukazu Nakamura;Takashi Gojobori;Toshimichi Ikemura

  • Informatics for Unveiling Hidden Genome Signatures

    Takashi Abe;Shigehiko Kanaya;Makoto Kinouchi;Yuta Ichiba

  • Metabolite annotations based on the integration of mass spectral information

    Yoko Iijima;Yukiko Nakamura;Yoshiyuki Ogata;Ken’ichi Tanaka

  • Analysis of codon usage diversity of bacterial genes with a self-organizing map (SOM): characterization of horizontally transferred genes with emphasis on the E. coli O157 genome

    Shigehiko Kanaya;Makoto Kinouchi;Takashi Abe;Yoshihiro Kudo

  • Enhanced Recombinant Protein Productivity by Genome Reduction in Bacillus subtilis

    Takuya Morimoto;Ryosuke Kadoya;Ryosuke Kadoya;Keiji Endo;Masatoshi Tohata

  • KNApSAcK: A Comprehensive Species-Metabolite Relationship Database

    Y. Shinbo;Y. Nakamura;Y. Nakamura;M. Altaf-Ul-Amin;H. Asahi

  • The complete nucleotide sequence of φCTX, a cytotoxin‐converting phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: implications for phage evolution and horizontal gene transfer via bacteriophages

    Keisuke Nakayama;Shigehiko Kanaya;Makoto Ohnishi;Yoshiro Terawaki

  • Genome-wide binding profiles of the Bacillus subtilis transition state regulator AbrB and its homolog Abh reveals their interactive role in transcriptional regulation.

    Onuma Chumsakul;Hiroki Takahashi;Taku Oshima;Takahiro Hishimoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshimichi Ikemura
Toshimichi Ikemura Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology
Hirotada Mori
Hirotada Mori Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Kazuki Saito
Kazuki Saito Chiba University
Naotake Ogasawara
Naotake Ogasawara Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Daisuke Shibata
Daisuke Shibata Kyoto University
Ken Kurokawa
Ken Kurokawa National Institute of Genetics
Fumio Matsuda
Fumio Matsuda Osaka University
Yasukazu Nakamura
Yasukazu Nakamura National Institute of Genetics
Satoshi Nakamura
Satoshi Nakamura Nara Institute of Science and Technology

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