Biosketch

Xizeng Mao is the Postodoctorial Research Associate supervised by Ying Xu in Computational Systems Biolog Lab (CSBL) in University of Gerogia (UGA). He received his Ph. D. degree in Bioinformatics from Peking University in 2008 (Ph.D. thesis supervised by Liping Wei) and Bachelor degree in Biology from Lanzhou University in 2003. Between 2005 and 2006, he got two summer internships as a junior software developer in the Exoweb company. His current research interests include (i) computional construction and modeling of biological pathways, particularly for microbial organisms, and (ii) development of intuitive bioinformatics software and web server.

Here is my profile () at ResearchID. Feel free to check out citation statistics for my publications.

New papers

• Xizeng Mao*, Victor Olman*, Qin Ma, Henry Schwartz, Bingqiang Liu, Zheng Chang, Ying Xu. Prediction and Analyses of the Landscape of Transcriptional Units in E. coli: Going Beyond Operons. In prepration, 2012.
• Xizeng Mao, Han Zhang, Yanbin Yin, and Ying Xu. The percentage of bacterial genes on leading versus lagging strands is influenced by multiple balancing forces. Nucleic Acids Research, 2012 (under review).
• Yanbin Yin*, Xizeng Mao*, Jincai Yang, Xin Chen, Ying Xu. dbCAN: An HMM-based DataBase for Carbohydrate-active enzyme ANnotation. Submitted NAR Web Server Issue, 2012 (under review). Web server.
• Xizeng Mao*, Xin Chen*, Yu Zhang, Spencer Pangle and Ying Xu. CINPER: an interactive web system for pathway prediction for prokaryotes. BMC Bioinformatics, 2012 (under review) Web server
• Juan Cui*, Xizeng Mao*, Ying Xu. The Need for Survival Drives Cancer to Have Increasingly Faster Cell Cycles. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, 2012 (to appear).
• Kun Xu, Xizeng Mao, Minesh Mehta, Juan Cui, Chi Zhang, Ying Xu. A comparative study of gene-expression data of basal cell carcinoma and melanoma reveals new insights about the two cancers. PLoS ONE, 7(1): e30750, 2012.

cinper

A web-based network-synthesis system to assist a biologist user to build a user-specified gene network for a prokaryotic organism in an intuitive manner, based on the information provided by the user and stored in the system.

New blogs

• Build a phylogenetic tree
  Collect a list of needed sequences. Do multiple sequence alignment, for example mafft (mafft –localpair –maxiterate 1000 a.fa > a.ali). Build a phylogenetic tree, for example FastTree (FastTree a.ali > a.nwk). Visualize the phylogenetic tree, for the iToL (http://itol.embl.de/) web server.
• Great photoshop tips for UI design
  http://player.vimeo.com/video/15185416 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for UI from Edward Sanchez on Vimeo.