Bioinformatics Lab @ VIPBG

Research Interest of Zhongming Zhao     Curriculum Vitae
  • Bioinformatics in psychiatric genetics. Study of gene structures of schizophrenia susceptibility genes (e.g. DTNBP1), on the design and establishment of a comprehensive bioinformatics system to efficiently manage various types of data, and on the development of computational tools for lab experimental support (e.g. PCR primer design, selection of candidate genes or genetic markers). Data integration.
  • Genetic variations and CpG islands in mammalian genomes. We are investigating the molecular mechanims and genetic variation patterns using a comparative genomics approach. We are also interested in revealing the common/unique patterns of DNA polymorphisms, genotype and haplotype within and between human subpopulations and fixed mutations among species. CpG island evolution in mammlian genomes
  • Protein-protein interactions. Computational method development and in silico identification of protein-protein interactions; network analysis of disease genes

Recent Publications:

  • Han L, Su B, Li W-H, Zhao Z (2008) CpG island density and its correlations with genomic features in mammalian genomes. Genome Biology 9:R79 Paper Online

  • Guo AY, Webb BT, Miles MF, Zimmerman MP, Kendler KS, Zhao Z (2009) ERGR: An ethanol-related gene resource. Nucleic Acids Research 37 (Database issue) D840-845
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Postdoc Position Open      We also welcome graduate students to join us!

VCU Biomedical Informatics Journal Club

The Third Summit on Systems Biology (2009) . Date changed: Call for Abstracts and Papers (deadline extended to April 30, 2009)

2009 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC'09) Call for papers (deadline April 10, 2009), special session "Computational Analysis and Data Mining in Biological Systems" -- click here.

2009 Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing Call for papers (deadline March 10, 2009), Special session "Gene Networks and Pathyway Analysis".

VCU Pharmacogenetics Group


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