Summary
Takeru Nakazato is a senior life scientist and bioinformatics leader with 11+ years bridging molecular biology and large-scale biological data engineering. He spent over a decade at the Database Center for Life Science developing searchable, experiment-aware SRA indexing (DBCLS SRA) and the Gendoo gene–disease feature system that applies MeSH to expand functional interpretation beyond Gene Ontology. Now a Senior Chief at Japan's National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, he combines hands-on web and database development experience from NEC with deep domain expertise in ontologies, text mining, and functional annotation. His background spans wet-lab discoveries of osmoregulatory ion transporters to a PhD in Information Science, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency in biology and data systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex omics questions into usable web services and data resources that make public sequencing archives more accessible.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Information Science, Ph.D., Information Science at The University of Osaka
M.Sc, Biological Science, M.Sc, Biological Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japanese, English