Linxing Chen
Hefei, Anhui, China
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Top SchoolLinxing Chen is a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China with seven years of post-PhD research experience using genome-resolved metagenomics and meta-omics (metagenomics and metatranscriptomics) to reveal phylogenetic, metabolic and in situ transcriptional dynamics of microbes and their viruses across natural and host-associated microbiomes. Trained with a PhD in Environmental Science from Sun Yat-sen University and having held postdoctoral positions at Sun Yat-sen and UC Berkeley, he combines field-relevant sampling (acid mine drainage, freshwater, soil) with high-resolution computational genomics. His work uniquely links viral infection dynamics to microbial community function through in situ transcriptional evidence, advancing understanding of host–virus interactions in diverse environments. Based in Hefei, Anhui, he leads research that bridges ecological theory and genome-resolved methods to uncover hidden biodiversity and metabolic potential.
7 years of coding experience
博士学位 环境科学, 博士学位 环境科学 at Sun Yat-sen University
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
conda10
package-management10
genome-assembly10
metagenomics10
bioconda9
folding5
virus5
protein-structure4
genomics3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linxingchen/cobra
Oct 2021 - Sep 2025
A tool to raise the quality of viral genomes assembled from short-read metagenomes via resolving and joining of contigs fragmented during de novo assembly.
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 3 years 11 months
metagenomicsviral-metagenomicsgenome-assemblymanual-curationshort-read-sequencing
linxingchen/bioconda-recipes
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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