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On the development and the influence of big-data based biology

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26350359
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Sociology/History of science and technology
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

FUKUSHIMA Masato  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (10202285)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords科学社会学 / バイオ社会学 / 科学技術社会論 / 科学人類学 / 医療人類学 / サイエンス スタディーズ / 生命科学の社会学 / 創薬基盤 / データベース / 知識インフラ / バイオ情報学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project has focused on the three aspects of the relation between the rapid growth of data and the practice of biological research, in terms of 1) the rise and fall of expectations related to big data approach to biology; 2) the issue of value oscillation concerning the infrastructural aspect of such data science vis-a-vis the life sciences at large; 3) the analytical axioms of the degree of domain specificity of the concerned knowledge and the degree of social attention to the field. These three factors are found to be pivotal to understand the existing problems and obstacles concerning the complex relation between traditional biology and emerging big data approach, where the fluctuating expectation on the topic is influenced by the contradictory image of what data science can do to life sciences at large. It is also concluded that this phenomenon is also observable in the larger realm about which both researchers and policy makers are advised to pay closer attention.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2017 2016 2015

All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 7 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 3 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] The Experimental Zone of Learning: Mapping the Dynamics of Everyday Experiment2017

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Journal Title

      Mind, Culture and Activity

      Volume: X Issue: 4 Pages: 1-13

    • DOI

      10.1080/10749039.2017.1293689

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Constructing "Failure" in Big Biology: The Socio-technical Anatomy of the Protein 3000 Program in Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Journal Title

      Social Studies of Science

      Volume: 46(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 7-33

    • DOI

      10.1177/0306312715612146

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report 2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Blade Runner and Memory Devices: Reconsidering the Interrelations between the Body, Technology, and Enhancement2016

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Journal Title

      East Asian Science, Technology and Society

      Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Pages: 73-91

    • DOI

      10.1215/18752160-3326527

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report 2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Value Oscillation in Knowledge Infrastructure: Observing its Dynamic in Japan’s Drug Discovery Pipeline2016

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Journal Title

      Science and Technology Studies

      Volume: 29(2) Pages: 7-25

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Value oscillation in knowledge infrastructure: Observing its dynamic in Japan’s drug discovery pipeline2016

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Journal Title

      Science and Technology Studies

      Volume: 29(2)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Resilience in Scientific Research: Understanding How Natural Product Research Rebounded in an Adverse Situation2015

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Journal Title

      Science as Culture

      Volume: online first Issue: 2 Pages: 1-26

    • DOI

      10.1080/09505431.2015.1079605

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report 2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Corpus mysticum digitale (mystical body digital)?: on the concept of two bodies in the era of digital technology2015

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Journal Title

      Mortality

      Volume: 20(4) Issue: 4 Pages: 303-318

    • DOI

      10.1080/13576275.2015.1083696

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Infrastructural esthetics2016

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Organizer
      Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
    • Place of Presentation
      Barcelona, Spain
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-31
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Navigating the sea of drug discovery2015

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Organizer
      European Association for Social Studies of Science and Technology(EASST)
    • Place of Presentation
      Torun, Poland
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-18
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Comment2015

    • Author(s)
      Masato Fukushima
    • Organizer
      Workshop on Roles, Responsibility, and Social Imagery in a Risk Society
    • Place of Presentation
      国際基督教大学、東京都三鷹市
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-17
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 真理の工場ー現代科学技術の社会的研究2017

    • Author(s)
      福島真人
    • Publisher
      東京大学出版会
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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