NIBB-Chubu University

The 3rd Chubu University-NIPS-NIBB joint seminar “AIto Life System”
NIBB and NIPS have been promoting exchanges of personnel and information with Chubu University through jointseminars on the theme of "AI to Life System" since the fallof 2021, aiming for emergence through interdisciplinary
research and the discovery and cultivating of young researchers. The first joint seminar was hosted by Chubu University
in November 2021, and the 2nd seminar was organized byNIPS in January 2022.
On March 28, 2022, NIBB organized the 3rd joint seminar
held as a hybrid meeting with Zoom online system at theOkazaki Conference Center. In addition to the lectures ofongoing research utilizing AI analysis methods at each institute,a small group discussion was held to promote new collaborative research between the three institutes. The group discussions
were divided into two categories, "technology" and "science".
In each category, four topics were set up, and researchers andstudents discussed each topic separately. This event helped todeepen mutual understanding between information science andlife science, and promoted the budding of collaboration researchleading to the "elucidation of life systems using AI.

The NIBB Genome Informatics
Training Course

The NIBB Core Research Facilities regularly organizes
a series of training courses on the most recently developed research techniques. The NIBB Genome Informatics
Training Course (GITC) is specially designed for biologists
who are unfamiliar with bioinformatics. In 2021, we held
two sets of training courses on RNA-seq analysis. Eachversion of the RNA-seq analysis course was basically madeup of two 2-day programs: one being a preparatory course(Introduction to NGS Analysis) concerning the basics ofUNIX and R, and the other a practical course (Introductionto RNA-seq) for learning about the pipelines to RNA-seq
analysis using next-generation sequencing data. These GITC
courses offered lectures and hands-on tutorials. This year, allcourses were held online to prevent the spread of COVID-19
infection. By virtue of the online system, we expanded thecourse audiences by accepting some of them as “auditors”
who could receive only limited support during the hands-on
practice.

Introduction to RNA-seq: From theBasics of NGS to de novo Analyses■ O rganizers: Dr. Shuji Shigenobu and Dr. Ikuo
Uchiyama (NIBB Core Research Facilities)■ Lecturers: Dr. Shuji Shigenobu, Dr. Ikuo Uchiyama,
Dr. Masanao Sato (Hokkaido Univ.), Dr. Katsushi
Yamaguchi, Ms. Hiroyo Nishide, Mr. Takanori
Nakamura, Mr. Hiroki Sugiura (NIBB Core
Research Facilities)

August 25 (Thu)–26 (Fri), 2021
Opening remarks by Dr, Kiyokazu Agata, the Director-General of NIBB.

Group discussion on the topics of gene and protein.

■ Seminar information
LecturesTakashi Ueda (NIBB)
Junichi Chikazoe (NIPS)
Seine Shintani (Chubu University)■ Group discussion
1) Technology: Computer vision, Robotics, fMRI, andElectron Microscopy.
2) Science: Gene and protein, Cell, Brain and sensory,and Brain and behavior.

114(Practical Course) Introduction to NGS Analysis:
Basics of UNIX, R, and NGS■ 31 participants and 16 auditors (including 2 from NIBB)■ Program:
1. UNIX for Beginners
2. Introduction to “R”
3. Introduction to Statistics
4. NGS Basic Data Formats and NGS Basic Tools
5. Editor and Scripts
6. Text Processing
7. Exercises

September 15 (Thu)–16 (Fri), 2021
(Practical Course) RNA-seq Analysis Pipeline■ 28 participants and 16 auditors (including 3 from NIBB)■ Program:
1. Introduction to RNA-seq
2. NGS Basic Data Format and Basic Tools
3. Visualization of NGS Data
4. RNA-seq Pipelines: Genome-Based andTranscriptome-Based Approaches
5. Multivariate Statistics
6. Functional Annotation and Gene Ontology
7. Exercises

Introduction to NGS Analysis:
Basics of UNIX, R, and NGS
February 9 (Wed)–10 (Thu), 2022
(This program was the same as the above listed practical course)■ 27 participants and 16 auditors (including 5 from NIBB)

Introduction to RNA-seq: RNAseq Analysis Pipeline
March 2 (Wed)–3 (Thu), 2022
(This program was the same as the above listed practical course)■ 27 participants and 12 auditors (including 5 from NIBB)

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