He is the founding editor of the journal
Genome Biology and Evolution, the executive editor of the journal
Gene, academic editor of
FEBS Letters, associate editor of
Molecular Biology and Evolution and
PLOS Genetics, and section editor of computer genomics in
BMC Genomics. He has served on the editorial boards of six international journals including
GigaScience. Previously he was the editor of
Journal of Molecular Evolution for eight years (1995–2003). He is leader of the Japanese team of the
H-Invitational international consortium who was tasked with creating a database linking the 21,037 validated human genes to their biological function. Gojobori has worked extensively on the rates of synonymous and non-
synonymous substitutions,
positive selection,
horizontal gene transfer,
viral evolution,
genome evolution, and comparative
gene expression. In recent years, he has focused on the evolution of the brain and
central nervous system, and
COVID-19 or virus transmissions. Gojobori has served as the Program Director of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) of the Government of Japan and is the Science Officer of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture, and Technology (MEXT). He has contributed to databases such as DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL and the
H-Invitational human gene database. He has had more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed international journals on comparative and evolutionary genomics. Gojobori has also contributed to the
GenBank database construction as well as the H-Invitational human gene database. ==Honors==