Regional Student Group-Japan provides community places for fruitful scientific discussions and future collaborations to young computational biologists across Japan. At present (May 2009), we have >30 members who are from a variety of institutes and actively conducting researches in many branches of bioinformatics and the omics sciences. Since the principal focus of RSG-Japan is to promote research rather than education, our activity is jointly directed with post-docs and young faculty members who are going to get tenure positions.

Domestic activities:

Our main activities are currently domestic, including:
* Annual research meeting to present and discuss research progress
* Special interest group meetings and small social meetings
* Information sharing and communication via the Internet
* Exchange and collaboration with other groups in related research fields

International activities:

In addition to the domestic activities, we are launching some international activities:
* Holding international research conferences
(Cf. Taiwan-Japan Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Systems Biology, http://www.cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tjyoung2/ )
* Communication and collaboration with other Asian young research groups in this field
* Joining ISCB and Student Council activities

Contact:
http://bioinfowakate.org/
bioinfowakate-staff@yahoogroups.jp