Motomu Matsui, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Department of Biological Sciences,

Graduate School of Science,

The University of Tokyo, Japan

助教

東京大学

大学院理学系研究科

生物科学専攻

E-mail: qm at g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Research Project

NBDC統合化推進プログラムマイクロバイオーム研究を先導するハブを目指した微生物統合データベースの特化型開発」(2022–2026年度)

東大グループ微生物Phenotype情報のデータ構築とRDF化

Research Topics

Work experience

2017–present Research Associate; Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan (Wataru Iwasaki Laboratory)

2015–2017 Postdoctral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD); Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan (Wataru Iwasaki Laboratory)

2014–2015 Postdoctral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan (Wataru Iwasaki Laboratory)

2009–2011 Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)

2009–2012 Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan (Genetic Analysis Laboratory)


2017–現在 助教, 東京大学大学院理学系研究科生物科学専攻 (岩崎渉研究室)

2015–2017 日本学術振興会 特別研究員 (PD), 東京大学大学院理学系研究科生物科学専攻 (岩崎渉研究室)

2014–2015 特任研究員, 東京大学大学院理学系研究科 生物科学専攻 (岩崎渉研究室)

2009–2011 日本学術振興会 特別研究員 (DC1), 慶應義塾大学 政策・メディア研究科 (冨田勝研究室)

2009–2012 非常勤講師, 慶應義塾大学 環境情報学部 (遺伝子解析実習)

Education 

2014 Ph.D., Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan

2009 M.A. in Systems Biology, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan

2007 B.S., Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan


2014 慶應義塾大学 政策・メディア研究科 博士課程 修了

2009 慶應義塾大学 政策・メディア研究科 修士課程 修了

2007 慶應義塾大学 環境情報学部 卒業

2003 筑波大学附属駒場高等学校 卒業

Texts

Tools

Github

https://github.com/MotomuMatsui

Graph Splitting Method

http://gs.bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Escherichia coli sRNA Browser

http://rna.iab.keio.ac.jp/

Publications (Peer-reviewed papers)


The publication list in PubMed

11. Nanako Kanno, Shingo Kato, Moriya Ohkuma, Motomu Matsui, Wataru Iwasaki, and Shinsuke Shigeto

Nondestructive microbial discrimination using single-cell Raman spectra and Random Forest machine learning algorithm

STAR Protocols, 2022, 3(4):101812

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10. Takao K Suzuki, Motomu Matsui, Sira Sriswasdi, and Wataru Iwasaki

Lifestyle Evolution Analysis by Binary-State Speciation and Extinction (BiSSE) Model

Methods in Molecular Biology, 2022, 2569:327–342

PubMed


9. Motomu Matsui

Frontier of Inferring Phylogenies

JSBi Bioinformatics Review (in Japanese), 2021, 2(1):30-57

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8. Nanako Kanno, Shingo Kato, Moriya Ohkuma, Motomu Matsui, Wataru Iwasaki, and Shinsuke Shigeto

Machine learning-assisted single-cell Raman fingerprinting for in situ and nondestructive classification of prokaryotes

iScience, 2021, 24(9):102975

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7. Motomu Matsui, and Wataru Iwasaki

Graph Splitting: A Graph-Based Approach for Superfamily-scale Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction

Systematic Biology, 2020, 69(2):265–279

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6. Tazro Ohta, Takeshi Kawashima, Natsuko O. Shinozaki, Akito Dobashi, Satoshi Hiraoka, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, Keiichi Kanno, Takafumi Kataoka, Shuichi Kawashima, Motomu Matsui, Wataru Nemoto, Suguru Nishijima, Natsuki Suganuma, Haruo Suzuki, Y-h. Taguchi, Yoichi Takenaka, Yosuke Tanigawa, Momoka Tsuneyoshi, Kazutoshi Yoshitake, Yukuto Sato, Riu Yamashita, Kazuharu Arakawa and Wataru Iwasaki

Collaborative environmental DNA sampling from petal surfaces of flowering cherry Cerasus × yedoensis ‘Somei-yoshino’ across the Japanese archipelago

Journal of Plant Research, 2018, 131(4):709–717

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5. Motomu Matsui, Masaru Tomita and Akio Kanai

Comprehensive computational analysis of bacterial CRP/FNR superfamily and its target motifs reveals stepwise evolution of transcriptional networks

Genome Biology Evolution, 2013, 5(2):267–282

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 Adopted as the cover art of Genome Biology and Evolution, 5(4), 2013.

4.  Atsuko Shinhara, Motomu Matsui, Kiriko Hiraoka, Wataru Nomura, Reiko Hirano, Kenji Nakahigashi, Masaru Tomita, Hirotada Mori and Akio Kanai

Deep sequencing reveals as-yet-undiscovered small RNAs in Escherichia coli

BMC Genomics, 2011, 12:428

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Certified as Highly accessed  in BMC Genomics, 12.


3. Motomu Matsui, Nozomu Yachie, Yuki Okada, Rintaro Saito and Masaru Tomita

Bioinformatic analysis of post-transcriptional regulation by uORF in human and mouse

FEBS Letter, 2007, 581:4184–4188

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2. Junichi Sugahara, Nozomu Yachie, Yasuhiko Sekine, Akiko Soma, Motomu Matsui, Masaru Tomita and Akio Kanai

SPLITS: a new program for predicting split and intron-containing tRNA genes at the genome level

In Silico Biology, 2006, 6:411–418

PubMed


1. Kazuharu Arakawa, Haruo Suzuki, Kosuke Fujishima, Kenji Fujimoto, Shou Ueda, Motomu Matsui, and Masaru Tomita

A comprehensive software suite for the analysis of cDNAs

Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics, 2005, 3:179–188

PubMed

Publications (others)

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