General

Zhang Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor in the CAS 100-Talent Program

Executive Director of BIG Data Center

Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

No.1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100101, China

Email: zhangzhang(AT)big.ac.cn

Lab site: http://bigd.big.ac.cn, http://cbb.big.ac.cn

Personal profile: Google Scholar

Publons: https://publons.com/author/388485


Research Areas

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics


Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2007
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, 2004
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Ningxia University, China, 2002


Professional Experience

  • Executive Director of BIG Data Center, BIG, CAS, China, 2016−Present
  • Professor in the CAS 100-Talent Program, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, 2011−Present
  • Research Scientist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2009−2011
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, United States of America, 2007−2009

Publications

  1. Zhang Z as corresponding author in BIG Data Center Members: The BIG Data Center: from deposition to integration to translation. Nucleic Acids Res 2017, accepted and in press.

  2. Zhang Z listed in The RNAcentral Consortium: RNAcentral: a comprehensive database of non-coding RNA sequences. Nucleic Acids Res 2017, [Epub ahead of print]. Pubmed.png

  3. Xue Y, ..., Zhang Z., Huang K, Yu J: Precision Medicine: What Challenges Are We Facing?, Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2016, 14(5):253-261.Pubmed.png

  4. Yin HY, Wang GY, Ma LN, Yi SV, Zhang Z: What signatures dominantly associate with gene age? Genome Biology and Evolution 2016, 8(10):3083-9. Pubmed.png

  5. Xu XJ, Ji ZH, Zhang Z: CloudPhylo: a fast and scalable tool for phylogeny reconstruction. Bioinformatics 2016, [Epub ahead of print]. Pubmed.png

  6. Yin HY, Wang GY, Ma LN, Yi SV, Zhang Z: What signatures dominantly associate with gene age? Genome Biology and Evolution 2016, 8(10):3083-9. Pubmed.png

  7. Sun SX, Xiao JF, Zhang HY*, Zhang Z: Pangenome evidence for higher codon usage bias and stronger translational selection in core genes of Escherichia coli. Frontiers in Microbiology 2016, 7:1180. Pubmed.png

  8. Yin HY, Ma LN, Wang GY, Li MW, Zhang Z: Old genes experience stronger translational selection than young genes. Gene 2016, 590(1):29-34.Pubmed.png

  9. Wang GY, Sun SX, Zhang Z: Randomness in sequence evolution increases over time. PLoS One 2016, 11(5): e0155935.Pubmed.png

  10. Zhang Z as corresponding author in IC4R Project Consortium: Information Commons for Rice (IC4R). Nucleic Acids Res 2016, 44(D1):D1172-1180. [PMID=26519466]

  11. Zou D, Sun S, Li R, Liu J, Zhang J, Zhang Z: MethBank: a database integrating next-generation sequencing single-base-resolution DNA methylation programming data. Nucleic Acids Res 2015, 43(Database issue):D54-58. [PMID=25294826]

  12. Zou D, Ma L, Yu J, Zhang Z: Biological databases for human research. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2015, 13(1):55-63. [PMID=25712261]

  13. Ma L, Li A, Zou D, Xu X, Xia L, Yu J, Bajic VB, Zhang Z: LncRNAWiki: harnessing community knowledge in collaborative curation of human long non-coding RNAs. Nucleic Acids Res 2015, 43(Database issue):D187-192. [PMID=25399417]

  14. Bai B, Zhao WM, Tang BX, Wang YQ, Wang L, Zhang Z, Yang HC, Liu YH, Zhu JW, Irwin DM, Wang GD, Zhang YP: DoGSD: the dog and wolf genome SNP database. Nucleic Acids Res 2015, 43(Database issue):D777-783. [PMID=25404132]

  15. Zhao Y, Jia X, Yang J, Ling Y, Zhang Z, Yu J, Wu J, Xiao J: PanGP: a tool for quickly analyzing bacterial pan-genome profile. Bioinformatics 2014, 30(9):1297-1299.[PMID=24420766]

  16. Zhang Z, Zhu W, Luo J: Bringing biocuration to China. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2014, 12(4):153-155. [PMID=25042682]

  17. Zhang Z, Sang J, Ma L, Wu G, Wu H, Huang D, Zou D, Liu S, Li A, Hao L, Tian M, Xu C, Wang X, Wu J, Xiao J, Dai L, Chen LL, Hu S, Yu J: RiceWiki: a wiki-based database for community curation of rice genes. Nucleic Acids Res 2014, 42(Database issue):D1222-1228. [PMID=24136999]

  18. Xu P, Zhang X, Wang X, Li J, Liu G, Kuang Y, Xu J, Zheng X, Ren L, Wang G, Zhang Y, Huo L, Zhao Z, Cao D, Lu C, Li C, Zhou Y, Liu Z, Fan Z, Shan G, Li X, Wu S, Song L, Hou G, Jiang Y, Jeney Z, Yu D, Wang L, Shao C, Song L, Sun J, Ji P, Wang J, Li Q, Xu L, Sun F, Feng J, Wang C, Wang S, Wang B, Li Y, Zhu Y, Xue W, Zhao L, Wang J, Gu Y, Lv W, Wu K, Xiao J, Wu J, Zhang Z, Yu J, Sun X: Genome sequence and genetic diversity of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Nat Genet 2014, 46(11):1212-1219. [PMID=25240282]

  19. Wu J, Xiao J, Zhang Z, Wang X, Hu S, Yu J: Ribogenomics: the science and knowledge of RNA. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2014, 12(2):57-63. [PMID=24769101]

  20. Wu H, Fang Y, Yu J, Zhang Z: The quest for a unified view of bacterial land colonization. The ISME journal 2014, 8(7):1358-1369. [PMID=24451209]

  21. Wu G, Zhu J, Yu J, Zhou L, Huang JZ, Zhang Z: Evaluation of five methods for genome-wide circadian gene identification. Journal of biological rhythms 2014, 29(4):231-242.[PMID=25238853]

  22. Ma L, Cui P, Zhu J, Zhang Z, Zhang Z: Translational selection in human: more pronounced in housekeeping genes. Biol Direct 2014, 9:17. [PMID=25011537]

  23. Kang Y, Gu C, Yuan L, Wang Y, Zhu Y, Li X, Luo Q, Xiao J, Jiang D, Qian M, Ahmed Khan A, Chen F, Zhang Z, Yu J: Flexibility and symmetry of prokaryotic genome rearrangement reveal lineage-associated core-gene-defined genome organizational frameworks. mBio 2014, 5(6):e01867. [PMID=25425232]

  24. Zhang Z, Yu J: Does the genetic code have a eukaryotic origin?. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2013, 11(1):41-55. [PMID=23402863]

  25. Zhang Z, Wong GK, Yu J: Protein coding. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (eLS) 2013. [Link]

  26. Wu J, Xiao J, Wang L, Zhong J, Yin H, Wu S, Zhang Z, Yu J: Systematic analysis of intron size and abundance parameters in diverse lineages. Sci China Life Sci 2013, 56(10):968-974. [PMID=24022126]

  27. Tong X, Yang Y, Wang W, Bai Z, Ma L, Zheng X, Sun H, Zhang Z, Zhao M, Yu J, Ge RL: Expression profiling of abundant genes in pulmonary and cardiac muscle tissues of Tibetan Antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii). Gene 2013, 523(2):187-191. [PMID=23612247]

  28. Ma L, Bajic VB, Zhang Z: On the classification of long non-coding RNAs. RNA Biol 2013, 10(6):925-933. [PMID=23696037]

  29. Dai L, Xu C, Tian M, Sang J, Zou D, Li A, Liu G, Chen F, Wu J, Xiao J, Wang X, Yu J, Zhang Z: Community intelligence in knowledge curation: an application to managing scientific nomenclature. PLoS One 2013, 8(2):e56961. [PMID=23451119]

  30. Dai L, Tian M, Wu J, Xiao J, Wang X, Townsend JP, Zhang Z: AuthorReward: increasing community curation in biological knowledge wikis through automated authorship quantification. Bioinformatics 2013, 29(14):1837-1839. [PMID=23732274]

  31. Chen M, Xiao J, Zhang Z, Liu J, Wu J, Yu J: Identification of human HK genes and gene expression regulation study in cancer from transcriptomics data analysis. PLoS One2013, 8(1):e54082. [PMID=23382867]

  32. Zhang Z, Yu J: The pendulum model for genome compositional dynamics: from the four nucleotides to the twenty amino acids. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2012, 10(4):175-180. [PMID=23084772]

  33. Zhang Z, Xiao J, Wu J, Zhang H, Liu G, Wang X, Dai L: ParaAT: a parallel tool for constructing multiple protein-coding DNA alignments. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2012, 419(4):779-781. [PMID=22390928]

  34. Zhang Z, Li J, Cui P, Ding F, Li A, Townsend JP, Yu J: Codon Deviation Coefficient: a novel measure for estimating codon usage bias and its statistical significance. BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13(1):43. [PMID=22435713]

  35. Wu H, Zhang Z, Hu S, Yu J: On the molecular mechanism of GC content variation among eubacterial genomes. Biol Direct 2012, 7(1):2. [PMID=22230424]

  36. Wu H, Qu H, Wan N, Zhang Z, Hu S, Yu J: Strand-biased gene distribution in bacteria is related to both horizontal gene transfer and strand-biased nucleotide composition.Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2012, 10(4):186-196. [PMID=23084774]

  37. Dai L, Gao X, Guo Y, Xiao J, Zhang Z: Bioinformatics clouds for big data manipulation. Biol Direct 2012, 7:43; discussion 43. [PMID=23190475]

  38. Cui P, Liu W, Zhao Y, Lin Q, Zhang D, Ding F, Xin C, Zhang Z, Song S, Sun F, Yu J, Hu S: Comparative analyses of H3K4 and H3K27 trimethylations between the mouse cerebrum and testis. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2012, 10(2):82-93. [PMID=22768982]

  39. Cui P, Ding F, Lin Q, Zhang L, Li A, Zhang Z, Hu S, Yu J: Distinct contributions of replication and transcription to mutation rate variation of human genomes. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2012, 10(1):4-10. [PMID=22449396]

  40. Zhang Z, Yu J: On the organizational dynamics of the genetic code. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2011, 9(1-2):21-29. [PMID=21641559]

  41. Zhang Z, Bajic VB, Yu J, Cheung K-H, Townsend JP: Data Integration in Bioinformatics: Current Efforts and Challenges. In: Bioinformatics - Trends and Methodologies. Edited by Mahdavi MA, vol. 1. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech; 2011: 41-56. [Link]

  42. Zhang Z, Yu J: Modeling compositional dynamics based on GC and purine contents of protein-coding sequences. Biol Direct 2010, 5(1):63. [PMID=21059261]

  43. Zhang Z, Townsend JP: The filamentous fungal gene expression database (FFGED). Fungal Genet Biol 2010, 47(3):199-204. [PMID=20025988]

  44. Zhang Z, Lopez-Giraldez F, Townsend JP: LOX: inferring Level Of eXpression from diverse methods of census sequencing. Bioinformatics 2010, 26(15):1918-1919.[PMID=20538728]

  45. Wang D, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhu J, Yu J: KaKs_Calculator 2.0: a toolkit incorporating gamma-series methods and sliding window strategies. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2010, 8(1):77-80. [PMID=20451164]

  46. Qu H, Wu H, Zhang T, Zhang Z, Hu S, Yu J: Nucleotide compositional asymmetry between the leading and lagging strands of eubacterial genomes. Res Microbiol 2010, 161(10):838-846. [PMID=20868744]

  47. Zhang Z, Townsend JP: Maximum-likelihood model averaging to profile clustering of site types across discrete linear sequences. PLoS Comput Biol 2009, 5(6):e1000421.[PMID=19557160]

  48. Zhang Z, Cheung KH, Townsend JP: Bringing Web 2.0 to bioinformatics. Briefings in Bioinformatics 2009, 10(1):1-10. [PMID=18842678]

  49. Li J, Zhang Z, Vang S, Yu J, Wong GK, Wang J: Correlation between Ka/Ks and Ks is related to substitution model and evolutionary lineage. J Mol Evol 2009, 68(4):414-423.[PMID=19308632]

  50. Zheng H, Shi J, Fang X, Li Y, Vang S, Fan W, Wang J, Zhang Z, Wang W, Kristiansen K, Wang J: FGF: a web tool for Fishing Gene Family in a whole genome database. Nucleic Acids Res 2007, 35(Web Server issue):W121-125. [PMID=17584790]

  51. Zhao X, Zhang Z, Yan J, Yu J: GC content variability of eubacteria is governed by the pol III alpha subunit. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007, 356(1):20-25.[PMID=17336933]

  52. Hu J, Zhao X, Zhang Z, Yu J: Compositional dynamics of guanine and cytosine content in prokaryotic genomes. Res Microbiol 2007, 158(4):363-370. [PMID=17449227]

  53. Zhang Z, Yu J: Evaluation of six methods for estimating synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2006, 4(3):173-181.[PMID=17127215]

  54. Zhang Z, Li J, Zhao XQ, Wang J, Wong GK, Yu J: KaKs_Calculator: calculating Ka and Ks through model selection and model averaging. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics2006, 4(4):259-263. [PMID=17531802]

  55. Zhang Z, Li J, Yu J: Computing Ka and Ks with a consideration of unequal transitional substitutions. BMC Evol Biol 2006, 6:44. [PMID=16740169]

  56. Li H, Coghlan A, Ruan J, Coin LJ, Heriche JK, Osmotherly L, Li R, Liu T, Zhang Z, Bolund L, Wong GK, Zheng W, Dehal P, Wang J, Durbin R: TreeFam: a curated database of phylogenetic trees of animal gene families. Nucleic Acids Res 2006, 34(Database issue):D572-580. [PMID=16381935]


Research Interests

Big Data Integration and Analytics

Computational Molecular Evolution

Students

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