Contact
CellDesigner Inquiry: info @ celldesigner.org
The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Tel: +81-3-5468-1661 Fax: +81-3-5468-1664
E-Mail: info at sbi.jp
About Us
CellDesigner is being developed by the Systems Biology Institute (SBI), Tokyo, Japan.
Core Members
Hiroaki Kitano (kitano at symbio.jst.go.jp), Ph.D.,was the head of the Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project of JST ERATO-SORST, and is the founder and president of the Systems Biology Institute In Tokyo, Japan. 
Akira Funahashi (funa at bio.keio.ac.jp), Ph.D. in Computer Science, is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Biosciences and Informatics at Keio University. He was previously a researcher in the Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST ERATO-SORST. and the SBI.
His research interests include the areas of computational biology, systems biology, interconnection networks, and parallel processing.
Akiya Jouraku, Ph.D. in Computer Science, was a Research Assistant in the Dept. of Biosciences and Informatics at Keio University, Japan. He is a developer of libSBML and KEGG2SBML. His current research interests include systems biology, interconnection networks, and parallel processing.
Norihiro Kikuchi of Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co. Ltd.
Samik Ghosh, Ph.D. in Computer Science, of SBI
Yukiko Matsuoka (myukiko at sbi.jp),
Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST ERATO-SORST, SBI
Contributors
- Rainer Machné and Christoph Flamm at University of Vienna for providing us a library version of SBML ODE Solver (SOSlib).
- Ralph Gauges, Sven Sahle and Ursula Kummer at University of Heidelberg for the development of a library version of COPASI.
- Frank Bergmann and Herbert Sauro at University of Washington for helping us support SBW-2.x on CellDesigner.
- Naoki Tanimura at Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc
- Yusuke Tamaru of Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co. Ltd.
Many thanks to the users who kindly provided us bug reports and feature requests!
Fundings
- ERATO-SORST program (JST)
- International Standard Development area of the International Joint Research Grant (NEDO)
- Strategic Japanese-Swedish Cooperative Program on "Multidisciplinary BIO" (JST-VINNOVA/SSF)
- Establishment of a Human Genome Network Platform (MEXT) and through the special coordination funds for promoting science and technology from the Japanese government's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
