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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to bioinformatics, computational biology, knowledge mining and semantic data integration
  • 2017 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Cathy H. Wu is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an emphasis on molecular biology and artificial intelligence as notable subfields. Their work also touches areas such as control and systems engineering, automotive engineering, and transportation.

The scientist's main research topics include bioinformatics and genomic networks, traffic control and management, biomedical text mining and ontologies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, vehicle emissions and performance, and transportation planning and optimization.

Key recent publications by Cathy H. Wu include:

  • InterPro in 2022, published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on (2020), Nucleic Acids Research
  • UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025 (2024), Nucleic Acids Research
  • InterPro: the protein sequence classification resource in 2025 (2024), Nucleic Acids Research
  • SMIL: Multimodal Learning with Severely Missing Modality (2021), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Frequent coauthors in their research include Chuming Chen, Karen Ross, Julie Cowart, Darren A. Natale, and Alex Bateman.

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Nucleic Acids Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Bioinformatics Advances, and the Journal of Clinical & Medical Genomics.

Awards received by Cathy H. Wu include recognition as an ACM Fellow in 2020 for contributions to bioinformatics, computational biology, knowledge mining, and semantic data integration. They were also named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2017.

Best Publications

  • UniProt: A hub for protein information

    Alex Bateman;Maria Jesus Martin;Claire O'Donovan;Michele Magrane

  • UniProt: the Universal Protein knowledgebase

    Rolf Apweiler;Amos Bairoch;Cathy H. Wu;Winona C. Barker

  • UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023

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  • UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021

    Alex Bateman;Maria-Jesus Martin;Sandra Orchard

  • The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)

    Amos Bairoch;Rolf Apweiler;Cathy H. Wu;Winona C. Barker

  • The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

    Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

  • InterPro in 2022

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  • Activities at the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)

    R Apweiler;A Bateman;MJ Martin;C O'Donovan

  • InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

    Sarah Hunter;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on.

    Matthias Blum;Hsin Yu Chang;Sara Chuguransky;Tiago Grego

  • UniRef clusters: a comprehensive and scalable alternative for improving sequence similarity searches

    Baris E. Suzek;Yuqi Wang;Hongzhan Huang;Peter B. McGarvey

  • UniRef: comprehensive and non-redundant UniProt reference clusters.

    Baris E. Suzek;Hongzhan Huang;Peter B. McGarvey;Raja Mazumder

  • InterPro in 2017-beyond protein family and domain annotations

    Robert D. Finn;Teresa K. Attwood;Patricia C. Babbitt;Alex Bateman

  • The InterPro protein families database: the classification resource after 15 years

    Alex L. Mitchell;Hsin-Yu Chang;Louise C. Daugherty;Matthew Fraser

  • The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt): an expanding universe of protein information

    Cathy H. Wu;Rolf Apweiler;Amos Bairoch;Darren A. Natale

  • InterPro in 2011: new developments in the family and domain prediction database

    Sarah Hunter;Philip Jones;Alex Mitchell;Rolf Apweiler

  • The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2010

    R Apweiler;MJ Martin;C O'Donovan;M Magrane

  • InterPro, progress and status in 2005

    Nicola J. Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • New developments in the InterPro database

    Nicola J. Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • The Protein Information Resource

    Cathy H. Wu;Lai-Su L. Yeh;Hongzhan Huang;Leslie Arminski

  • The human proteome project: Current state and future direction

    Pierre Legrain;Ruedi Aebersold;Ruedi Aebersold;Alexander Archakov;Amos Marc Bairoch

  • Accomplishments and challenges in literature data mining for biology

    Lynette Hirschman;Jong C. Park;Junichi Tsujii;Limsoon Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Hongzhan Huang
Hongzhan Huang University of Delaware
Cecilia N. Arighi
Cecilia N. Arighi University of Delaware
George Y. Wu
George Y. Wu University of Connecticut Health Center
K. Vijay-Shanker
K. Vijay-Shanker University of Delaware
Hongfang Liu
Hongfang Liu The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Rolf Apweiler
Rolf Apweiler European Bioinformatics Institute
Rodrigo Lopez
Rodrigo Lopez European Bioinformatics Institute
Alex Bateman
Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute
Maria Jesus Martin
Maria Jesus Martin European Bioinformatics Institute
Judith A. Blake
Judith A. Blake Edith Cowan University

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