Current address:

Noble Research Institute
2510 Sam Noble Parkway
Ardmore, OK
United States

Education:

Ph.D in Communication and Information System
Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science
2005 - 2008

Master in Communication and Information System
Jilin University
2001 - 2004

Bachelor in Electronics Engineering
Jilin University
1997 - 2001

Experience:

Computational Biologist Noble Research Institute 2018 - 2020

Bioinformatics Research Analyst The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation 2012 - 2017

Postdoc Research Scientist UNC-Charlotte & NC Research Campus 2010 - 2012

Skills:

Bioinformatics, Computational Biology

Computational Metabolomics, Computational Proteomics, Computational Mass- Spectrometry

Statistical Genomics, Quantitative Genetics, LMM, GWAS, NGS Data Analysis

System Biology, Trait Analysis, GXG, GXE, Multi-Omics Data Integration

High Performance Computing, GPU, MPI, Deep Learning, C/C++, Python, R, Java, Linux

Activities:

ASMS Member

Interests:

Image/video Processing

Signal Processing, Data Mining

Software Development, Programming

References:

Zhang, Wenchao, et al. 'GPU empowered pipelines for calculating genome-wide kinship matrices with ultra-high dimensional genetic variants and facilitating 1D and 2D GWAS.' NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 2.1 (2020): lqz009.

Zhang, Wenchao, et al. '2D association and integrative omics analysis in rice provides systems biology view in trait analysis.' Communications biology 1.1 (2018): 1-14.

Zhang, Wenchao, et al. 'PEPIS: a pipeline for estimating epistatic effects in quantitative trait locus mapping and genome-wide association studies.' PLoS computational biology 12.5 (2016): e1004925.

Zhang, Wenchao, et al. 'MET-XAlign: a metabolite cross-alignment tool for LC/MS-based comparative metabolomics.' Analytical chemistry 87.18 (2015): 9114-9119.

Zhang, Wenchao, et al. 'MET-COFEA: a liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry data processing platform for metabolite compound feature extraction and annotation.' Analytical chemistry 86.13 (2014): 6245-6253.

Other:

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