bioliyezhang
Shanghai, China
Summary
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SeniorLiye Zhang is an Assistant Professor and bioinformatician with 12 years of experience applying next-generation sequencing to clinical cancer research, translating RNA/DNA data into molecular classifiers that inform patient stratification. Trained with a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Penn State and seasoned by a postdoc at Boston University School of Medicine, he focuses on the functional impact of genetic and epigenetic variation in human disease. He combines strong Python skills and hands-on experience with Illumina and SOLiD platforms to develop reproducible pipelines and predictive models for driver mutation discovery. Based in Pudong, Shanghai, he leads bioinformatics efforts at ShanghaiTech University while maintaining a lab toolkit presence on GitHub under "Zhang Lab Bioinformatics Tools." Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous computational methods with clinical relevance and for prioritizing interpretable signatures over black-box predictions. His background across microbial ecology, developmental biology, and cancer genomics gives him an uncommon systems-level view of genome function.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
seq7
removal6
rna-seq5
bioinformatics4
artifact3
transcriptomics1
survival1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bioliyezhang/RAAR
May 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 11 months
alignmentbioinformaticsremovalrna-seqseq
bioliyezhang/bioliyezhang.github.io
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:72 commits, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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