The Great East Japan Earthquake has dramatically boosted the public’s consensus of energy saving. Office buildingsimposed restrictions on activating personal computers, and research institutions accepted to partially shutdowntheir supercomputers which are the heart of big-science research tools. Now is the time to investigate NII’s researchon energy-saving ICT equipment and its impact on the world.
The Comparative Genome Project, a designated research field of MEXT, seeks to describe biological evolution and diversity on earth through analysis of biological genomes that hold the vital key to the evolution of life over more than 3.5 billion years
