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Hong-Wei Sun
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Chief, Biodata Mining and Discovery Section, OST, IRP, NIAMS, NIH
Twenty years of experience in Bioinformatics since post-doc at Yale, where I solved the x-ray crystal structure of a cytokine (MIF). Developed and implemented in recent years a significant number of NGS data analysis pipelines and methods with emphasis on ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, RNA-Seq, scATAC-Seq, scRNA-Seq, Enhancers & Super Enhancers, and AI/ML. Co-authored more than 60 NGS data-based publications since 2010, including 33 in high impact journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Immunology, Science Immunology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Structural Biology, Immunity, Molecular Cell, and PNAS. A founding member of four Bioinformatics groups. Co-author of two published Java programs. Also a co-author of a Medical Bioinformatics textbook and a co-inventor of nine issued patents.