Li Chen

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and a member in Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Indiana University School of Medicine. I received a MS in Biostatistics and another MS in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University, and PhD in Computer Science and Informatics from Emory University. I also interned in CareerBuilder Data Science and Amazon Machine Learning.

Bioinformatics Data Mining & Machine Learning Genetics Genomics Statistics

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Emory University

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Work details

Assistant Professor

Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis

October 2019

Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science

My current research focuses on developing statistical and informatics methods for analyzing of large-scale omics data. Projects include but not limited to 1) Epigenomics: Develop statistical methods and database for analyzing epigenomic data 2) Genetics: Develop computational methods for annotating and analyzing functional variants (GWAS SNPs, cis-eQTL SNVs) by utilizing large-scale multi-omics profiles 3) Metagenomics: Develop statistical methods for analyzing microbiome data 4) Single-cell genomics: Develop statistical methods for clustering single-cell data 5) Transcriptomics: Develop statistical methods for analyzing non-coding RNAs.

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

April 2, 2018

GMPR: A robust normalization method for zero-inflated count data with application to microbiome sequencing data

Li Chen, James Reeve, Lujun Zhang, Shengbing Huang, Xuefeng Wang, Jun Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4600 PubMed 29629248

March 7, 2018 - Version: 3

GMPR: A robust normalization method for zero-inflated count data with application to microbiome sequencing data

Li Chen, James Reeve, Lujun Zhang, Shengbing Huang, Xuefeng Wang, Jun Chen

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3417v3

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October 31, 2018

BioInstaller: a comprehensive R package to construct interactive and reproducible biological data analysis applications based on the R platform

Jianfeng Li, Bowen Cui, Yuting Dai, Ling Bai, Jinyan Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5853 PubMed 30402350