Osamu Gotoh

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Osamu Gotoh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Osamu Gotoh has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Osamu Gotoh's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (15 papers). Osamu Gotoh is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (15 papers). Osamu Gotoh collaborates with scholars based in Japan and United States. Osamu Gotoh's co-authors include Hiroaki Iwata, Takeshi Iizuka, Hideki Nagasaki, Makiko Suwa, Masanori Arita, Akiyoshi Wada, Masayuki Oda, Daisuke Tomura, Hideki Tachibana and Hirofumi Shoun and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Osamu Gotoh

47 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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An improved algorithm for matching biological sequences

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Jijun Tang China

Yasubumi Sakakibara Japan

Akihiko Konagaya Japan

Kiyoshi Asai Japan

Teresa M. Przytycka United States

Kimmen Sjölander United States

Jacky L. Snoep Netherlands

Alberto Paccanaro United Kingdom

Jason D. Hughes United States

B. F. Francis Ouellette Canada

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All Works

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Gotoh, Osamu. (2024). Spaln3: improvement in speed and accuracy of genome mapping and spliced alignment of protein query sequences. Bioinformatics. 40(8). 2 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (2020). Cooperation of Spaln and Prrn5 for Construction of Gene-Structure-Aware Multiple Sequence Alignment. Methods in molecular biology. 2231. 71–88. 1 indexed citations

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Miyazaki, Sho, et al.. (2017). Characterization of moss ent-kaurene oxidase (CYP701B1) using a highly purified preparation. The Journal of Biochemistry. 163(1). 69–76. 2 indexed citations

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Omura, Tsuneo & Osamu Gotoh. (2017). Evolutionary origin of mitochondrial cytochrome P450. The Journal of Biochemistry. 161(5). 399–407. 22 indexed citations

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Sakamaki, Kazuhiro, Kouhei Shimizu, Hiroaki Iwata, et al.. (2014). The Apoptotic Initiator Caspase-8: Its Functional Ubiquity and Genetic Diversity during Animal Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(12). 3282–3301. 26 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu, Masato Morita, & David R. Nelson. (2014). Assessment and refinement of eukaryotic gene structure prediction with gene-structure-aware multiple protein sequence alignment. BMC Bioinformatics. 15(1). 189–189. 35 indexed citations

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Iwata, Hiroaki & Osamu Gotoh. (2011). Comparative analysis of information contents relevant to recognition of introns in many species. BMC Genomics. 12(1). 45–45. 33 indexed citations

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Nakato, Ryuichiro & Osamu Gotoh. (2010). Cgaln: fast and space-efficient whole-genome alignment. BMC Bioinformatics. 11(1). 224–224. 8 indexed citations

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Ohnuma, Shinobu, Koh Miura, Akira Horii, et al.. (2008). Cancer-associated splicing variants of the CDCA1 and MSMB genes expressed in cancer cell lines and surgically resected gastric cancer tissues. Surgery. 145(1). 57–68. 23 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu, et al.. (2006). Improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment using novel group-to-group sequence alignment algorithm with piecewise linear gap cost. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 524–524. 22 indexed citations

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Nagasaki, Hideki, Makiko Suwa, & Osamu Gotoh. (2003). An Algorithm for Classification of Alternative Splicing and Transcriptional Initiation and Its Genome-Wide Application. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 14. 424–425. 3 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Yoshihiko, et al.. (2003). Host range of poliovirus is restricted to simians because of a rapid sequence change of the poliovirus receptor gene during evolution. Archives of Virology. 148(1). 29–44. 17 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (1999). Multiple sequence alignment: Algorithms and applications. Advances in Biophysics. 36. 159–206. 66 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (1996). Significant Improvement in Accuracy of Multiple Protein Sequence Alignments by Iterative Refinement as Assessed by Reference to Structural Alignments. Journal of Molecular Biology. 264(4). 823–838. 230 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (1995). A weighting system and aigorithm for aligning many phylogenetically related sequences. Computer applications in the biosciences. 11(5). 543–551. 56 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (1993). Extraction of Conserved or Variable Regions from a Multiple Sequence Alignment. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 4. 109–113. 2 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (1993). Optimal alignment between groups of sequences and its application to multiple sequence alignment. Computer applications in the biosciences. 9(3). 361–370. 105 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (1990). Consistency of optimal sequence alignments. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 52(4). 509–525. 29 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (1990). Optimal sequence alignment allowing for long gaps. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 52(3). 359–373. 44 indexed citations

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Gotoh, Osamu. (1987). Pattern matching of biological sequences with limited storage. Computer applications in the biosciences. 3(1). 17–20. 23 indexed citations

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