Key Personnel

  • Pengyuan Liu, PhD Statistical Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics

Dr. Pengyuan Liu has more than 20 years of experience in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics data analysis. His current interest is in omics data analysis.

  • Yong Liu, PhD Molecular Biology, Genomics, and Bioinformatics

Dr. Yong Liu has a PhD in Genetics and an MS in Bioinformatics. His current research focuses on omics data analysis and human SNP annotation.

  • Qiongzi (Joan) Qiu, PhD Computational Biology

Dr. Qiongzi Qiu has a PhD in Bioinformatics. Her current research focuses on single-cell, single-cell multiome, and spatial transcriptomics data analysis.

  • Shima Sadri, PhD Metabolism and Mathematical Modeling

Dr. Shima Sadri has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Her current research focuses on single-cell metabolomic analysis in different cell types.

  • Jing Huang, MS Bioinformatics

Jing has an MS in Bioinformatics. Her current research focuses on the omics data process with the standard pipeline.

  • Vinod Kumar, PhD Bioinformatics

Dr. Vinod Kumar has a PhD in Bioinformatics. His work includes NGS data analysis, Whole genome data analysis, and machine learning. His current research focuses on Single-cell Multiome and spatial transcriptomics data analysis.

Ongoing types of bioinformatics data analysis

DNA:

SNP genomic annotation

Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)

Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (RRBS)

Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with sequencing (ATAC-Seq)

Cleavage Under Targets and Tagmentation (CUT&Tag)

Genome-wide chromatin conformation maps (HiC, Micro-C)

RNA:

Whole transcriptome sequencing (lncRNA-seq or total RNA-seq): Ribosome RNA (rRNA) depletion-based RNA-seq

mRNA-seq: poly (A) dependent RNA-seq

SMART-seq: total RNA-seq with low or very low input

Small RNA sequencing

Single-cell:

scRNA-seq (snRNA-seq)

Multiome (scRNA-seq+scATAC-seq)

Spatial transcriptome