Zhiping Weng
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China (BSc)
Boston University (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts
ThesisProtein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (1997)
Doctoral advisorCharles DeLisi[2]
Websitewww.umassmed.edu/zlab/ Edit this at Wikidata

Zhiping Weng is the Li Weibo Professor of biomedical research and chair of the program in integrative biology and bioinformatics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.[1][3][4][5] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.[6][7]

Education

Weng was educated at the University of Science and Technology of China[8] and Boston University where her PhD on the biochemistry of protein-ligand binding was supervised by Charles DeLisi and awarded in 1997.[9][2]

Career and research

Weng's research interests are in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, epigenomics and transcriptional regulation.[1] She is known for her ZDOCK suite of protein-protein docking algorithms,[10] leadership of ENCODE,[11][12] PsychENCODE,[13] and work on small RNA biology and piwi-interacting RNA (piRNAs).[1][3][4]

Awards and honors

Weng is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)[7] and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).[when?]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Zhiping Weng publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b "Chemistry Tree - Zhiping Weng". academictree.org. Academic Tree.
  3. ^ a b Zhiping Weng publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. ^ a b Zhiping Weng at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Zhiping Weng publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Anon (2020). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
  7. ^ a b Anon (2020). "ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". iscb.org.
  8. ^ "Zhiping Weng | Profiles RNS". profiles.umassmed.edu.
  9. ^ Weng, Zhiping (1997). Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (PhD thesis). Boston University. OCLC 38760266. ProQuest 304338123ProQuest 304338123.
  10. ^ Chen, Rong; Li, Li; Weng, Zhiping (2003). "ZDOCK: An initial-stage protein-docking algorithm". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics. 52 (1): 80–87. doi:10.1002/prot.10389. ISSN 0887-3585. PMID 12784371. S2CID 14465607.
  11. ^ The ENCODE Project Consortium (2007). "Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project". Nature. 447 (7146): 799–816. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..799B. doi:10.1038/nature05874. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 2212820. PMID 17571346.
  12. ^ The ENCODE Project Consortium (2012). "An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome". Nature. 489 (7414): 57–74. Bibcode:2012Natur.489...57T. doi:10.1038/nature11247. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 3439153. PMID 22955616.
  13. ^ Akbarian, Schahram; Liu, Chunyu; Knowles, James A; Vaccarino, Flora M; Farnham, Peggy J; Crawford, Gregory E; Jaffe, Andrew E; Pinto, Dalila; Dracheva, Stella; Geschwind, Daniel H; Mill, Jonathan; et al. (2015). "The PsychENCODE project". Nature Neuroscience. 18 (12): 1707–1712. doi:10.1038/nn.4156. ISSN 1097-6256. PMC 4675669. PMID 26605881.
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