In March 2016, the Research Commons Project will end following three fruitful years. One of its research projects, "Genetic Function Systems," had evolved over 10 years having carried forth integrated research since the founding of the Institute.

In addition to having an ideal genetic system for experimentation, the laboratory mouse, Mus musculus, has over 100 years of history of being used in the laboratory alongside the common fruit fly (Drosophila).

For humans and machines to coexist, natural language processing—the study of human language—is essential. Language has long been seen as a tool of thought that is unique to human, and not found in other animals.

Since a time well before the invention of the web, Professor Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics) has focused on human knowledge and on how machines might exploit the abundance of this knowledge.

Prof. Hiroshi Maruyama of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics has led our organization's research project, “Systems Resilience," for four years. Ahead of the end of the project in March 2016, it co-hosted

Research and development for researchmap started as "Science 2" in integrated research, immediately after the launch of the Research Organization of Information and Systems.

Even in tropical regions located directly on the equator there are mountains with glaciers. Such mountains include the 5,895 meter-high Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania),

Professor Satoshi Yamashita, director of the Risk Analysis Research Center at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo, promotes research involving both "social communication" and "human and social data" at the Research Commons Project.

Professor Tomoyuki Higuchi has been leading projects related to Data Assimilation and Simulation Support Technology at the Research Commons since the inception of the Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center in Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS).

Bestowed with a flower’s name, PANSY is a large atmospheric radar project ongoing at Syowa Station in the Antarctic.

Much of the data that humankind produces on a daily basis has been accumulated in the form of “text.” As against machine-readable “programming language,” that which we humans use is called “natural language.

Nowadays, we are able to utilize massive amounts of data related to organisms, human society, and the universe. However, as the volume of data grows,

The Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in 2011 (Heisei 23) resulted in a giant tsunami that struck the Tohoku Region of Japan.

Japan's 1947 Statistics Act underwent a thorough revision in April 2009, around 60 years after it was first introduced.

We have been conducting research  observations with  the "Program of the Antarctic Showa MST/IS radar" (PANSY radar) since 2012.

"Hackathon" in short, is a coding event where spirited programmers gather for a short period to work on development and solve topics through highly intensive interaction. BioHackathon adopted this style in 2008.

On Wall Street, which is one of several places on the leading edge of financial engineering, it is said that robots (programs) are already playing a significant role in trading.

Twenty years ago, a green object with a mountain-like shape similar to that of an anthill was found in a pond close to the Showa Station.

The benzene ring (C₆H₆), consisting of six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms, would be one of the most common chemical structures not only for chemists.

Associate Professor Akatsuki Kimura (National Institute of Genetics) is participating in the research commons “Data Assimilation / Simulation Support Technology” project led by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.

A “mule,” the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, cannot reproduce, and therefore cannot leave any descendants.

In the current era, the movement of astronomical objects can be predicted with high accuracy. Similarly, can we predict aurora much like weather forecasting?

Special Assistant Professor Masaya Saito (Institute of Statistical Mathematics) is involved in the Data Assimilation and Simulation Support Technologies project.

Here, we introduce the Data Assimilation and Simulation Support Technologies project, one of the three foundational projects of the Data-Centric Science Research Commons.

In the data-centric science research commons, Professor Noboru Sonehara is the leader of two projects-“Human and Social Data” and “Social Communication (Communication Informatics)”-and is advancing integrated research.

At an altitude of 3,810 meters with an annual average temperature of -54 °C, researchers at the Dome Fuji Station in Antarctica drill deep into the ice sheet to obtain rare ice cores.

The field of biological sciences has been an early advocate of the creation of databases.

Patiently confirming one’s own primary findings via continued and persistent hands on experimentation has been the traditional way of “practicing science” in biological research.

The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011. Since then, corporations and others have made advances in their measures to see how they can use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to assist in disaster recovery.