IBM SENIOR I/T SPECIALIST
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EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Bioinformatic analysis tools and platforms development
• Next generation sequence (NGS) data analysis
• Performance tuning for applications on life science research
• IT infrastructure customization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Performance tuning for applications on life science research, 2010/09 –2011/09
  • Apply self-implemented application-transparent user-space file cache library to CASAVA
    and obtain more than 10x performance improvement
  • Improve HMMER algorithm on file operation and obtain 2x performance improvement
  • Improve Altivec code of Gromacs and obtain 20% performance improvement
• ABrowse genome browser (collaborate with Peking University), 2010/09 –2011/09
  • A new Google-map-like visualization system, with support of collaborative work and transparent data interaction with external systems. (http://www.abrowse.org/)
• Rice genome browser database (collaborate with Peking University), 2009/04 – 2011/03
  • Rice-Map delivers abundant up-to-date japonica and indica annotations, providing a valuable resource for researchers to navigate, analyze and annotate rice genome interactively. (http://www.ricemap.org)
• Basic Oligonucleotide Alignment Tool, 2008/01 – 2009/08
  • A tool for mapping large volumes of short reads to reference sequences with better sensitivity and lower memory requirement
• WebLab Project, Peking University 2007/10 – 2009/04
  • Bioinformatic analysis platform development (http://weblab.cbi.pku.edu.cn)

PUBLICATION

• Kong L, Wang J, Zhao S, Gu X, Luo J, Gao G. ABrowse – A customizable next-generation genome browser framework. BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 Jan 5;13:2.
• Wang J, Kong L, Zhao S, Zhang H, Tang L, Li Z, Gu X, Luo J, Gao G. Rice-Map: a new-generation rice genome browser. BMC Genomics. 2011 Mar 30;12(1):165.
• Zhao S, Wang J, Zhang L, Li J, Gu X, Gao G, Wei L. BOAT: Basic Oligonucleotide Alignment Tool. BMC Genomics (Incob2009). 2009 Dec 3;10 Suppl 3:S2.
• Ye ZQ, Zhao SQ, Gao G, Liu XQ, Langlois RE, Lu H, Wei L. Finding new structural and sequence attributes to predict possible disease association of single amino acid polymorphism (SAP). Bioinformatics. 2007
• Sun Y, Zhao S, Yu H, Gao G, Luo J. ABCGrid: Application for Bioinformatics Computing Grid. Bioinformatics. 2007.