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Zhong Wang
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
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Contributions by role

Author 405
Preprint Author 35
Reviewer 35

Contributions by subject area

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Genomics
Microbiology
Data Science
Statistics

Zhong Wang

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Dr. Zhong Wang is a career computational biologist and group leader for genome analysis at DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI); he is also an adjunct professor at University of California at Merced. He received his B.S in Microbiology from Shandong University, China in 1994 and his Ph.D in Cell Biology from Duke University in 2004. He did his postdoc in the Institute of Genome Science and Policy at Duke University before becoming a research scientist at Yale University in 2008 working with Dr. Mike Snyder. He joined JGI in 2009 and established his research group. His research interests include transcriptomics, metagenomics, and high-performance computing. Dr. Wang published over 30 high-quality papers including several on Science and Nature. More information about his research can be found at: http://jgi.doe.gov/our-science/scientists-jgi/genome-analysis/

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Genomics

Editing Journals

Work details

Staff Scientist

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Genomics

Associate Adjunct Professor

University of California at Merced
July 2013
Cell Biology

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Preprints 1
  • Answers 1
April 8, 2020
Deconvolute individual genomes from metagenome sequences through short read clustering
Kexue Li, Yakang Lu, Li Deng, Lili Wang, Lizhen Shi, Zhong Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8966 PubMed 32296615
July 26, 2019
MetaBAT 2: an adaptive binning algorithm for robust and efficient genome reconstruction from metagenome assemblies
Dongwan D. Kang, Feng Li, Edward Kirton, Ashleigh Thomas, Rob Egan, Hong An, Zhong Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7359 PubMed 31388474
August 27, 2015
MetaBAT, an efficient tool for accurately reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities
Dongwan D. Kang, Jeff Froula, Rob Egan, Zhong Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1165 PubMed 26336640
February 6, 2019 - Version: 1
MetaBAT 2: an adaptive binning algorithm for robust and efficient genome reconstruction from metagenome assemblies
Dongwan Kang, Feng Li, Edward S Kirton, Ashleigh Thomas, Rob S Egan, Hong An, Zhong Wang
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27522v1

1 Answer

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How to summarize working basics of MetaBAT2