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Tak-Wah Lam
PeerJ Editor & Author
270 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Preprint Author 35
Editor 100

Contributions by subject area

Bioinformatics
Genomics
Computational Science
Computational Biology
Databases

Tak-Wah Lam

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Tak-Wah Lam received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington. His current research is in the areas of algorithms and bioinformatics. Apart from theoretical work, he is active in working together with the genomics industry to advance the software for NGS data analysis. The most recent software, called MEGAHIT, is targeted to assemble large volume of metagenomics data in a memory-and-time efficient manner.

Bioinformatics

Editing Journals

PeerJ Computer Science

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Hong Kong

Work details

Professor

University of Hong Kong
Department of Computer Science

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Preprints 1
  • Edited 1
June 3, 2014
BALSA: integrated secondary analysis for whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing, accelerated by GPU
Ruibang Luo, Yiu-Lun Wong, Wai-Chun Law, Lap-Kei Lee, Jeanno Cheung, Chi-Man Liu, Tak-Wah Lam
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.421 PubMed 24949238
April 25, 2014 - Version: 1
BALSA: Integrated secondary analysis for whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing, accelerated by GPU
Ruibang Luo, Yiu-Lun Wong, Wai-Chun Law, Lap-Kei Lee, Chi-Man Liu, Jeanno Cheung, Tak-Wah Lam
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.373v1

Academic Editor on

February 3, 2016
PATACSDB—the database of polyA translational attenuators in coding sequences
Malgorzata Habich, Sergej Djuranovic, Pawel Szczesny
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.45