Yupeng Wang



  Ph.D. student

  Institute of Bioinformatics

  The University of Georgia

  Athens, GA 30602

  Tel: 706-542-0959

  E-mail: wyp1125 at uga dot edu

 Education:


  Aug. 2007—now: Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia.
  Program: Bioinformatics, Ph.D.
  Supervisor: Dr. Romdhane Rekaya

  Sep. 2005 — Jul. 2007: Xiamen University, Master of Science in Cell Biolgy

  Sep. 2000 — Jul. 2004: Xiamen University, Bachelor of Science in Physics

 Research Interests:


  1) Gene expression divergence across species and its relationship with the evolution of gene regulation and gene function.

  2) Developing algorithms and software for detecting epistasis in Genome Wide Association Studies.

  3) Ant Colony Algorithm and its application in detecting high-order interactions from high throughput biological data.

  4) Developing statistical methods for studying cancer heterogeneity from microarray data.


 Academic Service:

  Reviewer for Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Bioinformatics and Biology Insights.

 Professional Experience:

  May 18, 2009- Aug 14, 2009, Summer Intern, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis

 Publications:

 
  • Yupeng Wang, Xinyu Liu and Romdhane Rekaya. Investigating three-way co-expression relationships in microarray data using an improved ant colony optimization. Poster for the 7th Georgia Tech - Oak Ridge National Lab International Conference on Bioinformatics.
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  • Yupeng Wang, Kelly Robbins, Xinyu Liu and Romdhane Rekaya. AntEpiSeeker: detecting epistatic interactions for case-control studies using a two-stage ant colony optimization (Submitted to BMC Res Notes, revision requested).
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  • Wensheng Zhang, Kelly Robbins, Yupeng Wang , Keith Bertrand and Romdhane Rekaya. A jackknife-like method for classification and uncertainty assessment of multi-category tumor samples using gene expression information (Submitted to BMC Genomics,revision requested).
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  • Yupeng Wang and Romdhane Rekaya. A novel method for comparing gene expression patterns across species (Submitted to BMC Genomics).
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  • Yupeng wang and Romdhane Rekaya. (2009) A comprehensive analysis of gene expression evolution between humans and mice. Evolutionary Bioinformatics 5: 81-90. [Full Text] [PubMed]
  • P. Kumar, B. C. Han, Z. Shi, J. Jia, Y. P. Wang, Y. T. Zhang, L. Liang, Q. F. Liu, Z. L. Ji, and Y. Z. Chen. (2009) Update of KDBI: Kinetic Data of Bio-molecular Interaction database. Nucleic Acids Res. 37: D636-D641.[Full Text] [PubMed]
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  • Yupeng Wang, Liang Liang, Bucong Han, Yu Quan, Xiao Wang, Tao Tao, Zhiliang Ji. (2006) GEPS: The Gene Expression Pattern Scanner. Nucleic Acids Res. 34: W492-W497. [Full Text] [PubMed]
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     Programming Skills:

      C++, Perl, R, Java, Python, PHP, Visual Basic.

     Courses Completed:

    BCMB 8210 Computational Methods for Bioinformatics
    BCMB 8211 Advanced Methods for Biological Data Analysis II
    BCMB 8010 Advanced Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
    STAT 6630 Statistical Bioinformatics I
    STAT 6640 Statistical Bioinformatics II
    STAT 8090 Statistical Analysis of Genetic Data
    CSCI 6490 Algorithms for Computational Biology
    STAT 6810 Probability Distributions
    CSCI 7010 Computer Programming
    GENE 8930 Advanced Molecular Genetics
    GENE 8940 Applied Genome Analysis
    STAT 6320 Statistical Analysis II