Areas of Focus
- Genomics
- Metagenomics and Pangenomics
- High-performance computing in bioinformatics
Work Experience
- 2015- Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2008-2015 Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2006-2007 Software Engineer, Microsoft, USA
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1991-1996 Bachelor of Mathematics: Peking University
- 1996-1999 Master of Signal and Information Processing: Peking University
- 2000-2006 PhD in Computer Science (Computational Biology): University of Washington
- Published nearly 50 papers in journals including Nature, cited over 5500 times
Publications
- Pangenomic analysis of Chinese gastric cancer, Yu, Y.*, Zhang, Z., Dong, X., Yang, R., Duan, Z., Xiang, Z., Li, J., Li, G., Yan, F., Xue, H., Jiao, D., Lu, J., Lu, H., Zhang, W., Wei, Y., Fan, S., Li, J., Jia, J., Zhang, J., Ji, J., Liu, P., Lu, H., Zhao, H., Chen, S., Wei, C.*, Chen, H.*, Zhu, Z.*, 2022
- Widespread of horizontal gene transfer regions in eukaryotes, Li, K., Yan, F., Duan, Z., Adelson, D., Wei, C.*, 2022
- Long-read sequencing of 111 rice genomes reveals significantly larger pan-genomes, Zhang, F., Xue, H., Dong, X., Li, M., Zheng, X., Li, Z., Xu, J., Wang, W., Wei, C.*, 2022
- HUPAN: a pan-genome analysis pipeline for human genomes, Duan, Z., Qiao, Y., Lu, J., Lu, H., Zhang, W., Yan, F., Sun, C., Hu, Z., Zhang, Z., Li, G., Chen, H., Xiang, Z., Zhu, Z., Zhao, H., Yu, Y.*, Wei, C.*, 2019
- Genomic variation in 3,010 diverse accessions of Asian cultivated rice, Wang, W., et al., 2018
- EUPAN enables pan-genome studies of a large number of eukaryotic genomes, Hu, Z., Sun, C., Lu, K., Chu, X., Zhao, Y., Lu, J., Shi, J.*, Wei, C.*, 2017
- RPAN: Rice Pan-genome Browser for ~3,000 rice genomes, Sun, C., Hu, Z., Lu, K., Zhao, Y., Lu, J., Zheng, T., Wang, W., Shi, J., Zhang, D., Li, Z.*, Wei, C.*, 2017
- Revealing missing human protein isoforms based on ab initio prediction, RNA-sesq and proteomics, Hu, Z., Scott, H., Qin, G., Zheng, G, Chu, X., Xie, L., Adelson, D., Oftedal, B., Venugopal, P., Babic, M., Hahn, C., Zhang, B., Wang, X., Li, N., Wei, C.*, 2015
- Closing in on the C.elegans ORFeome by Cloning TWINSCAN predictions, Wei, C., Lamesch, P., Arumugam M., Rosenberg, J., Hu, P., Vidal, M., and Brent, M. R., 2005
- More than 9,000,000 Unique Genes in Human Gut Bacterial Community: Estimating Gene Numbers Inside a Human Body, Yang, X., Xie, L., Li, Y., Wei, C*., 2009
Awards
- 2019 Top Ten Algorithms and Tools in Chinese Bioinformatics (2020)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University President's Award (2019)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Teaching and Educating Award (2018)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Outstanding Teacher (2015)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Morning Star Plan (2014)
- Ministry of Education New Century Excellent Talents (2013)
- Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan (2009)
- Synthetic Biology iGEM International Competition Gold Awards (2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021)
