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Overview

Qin Ma is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States and has made significant contributions primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their extensive publication record spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Plant Science, Oncology, and Cancer Research.

Their research emphasizes the following main topics:

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Qin Ma has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators, including Anjun Ma, Cankun Wang, Zihai Li, Yuzhou Chang, and Dong Xu. These partnerships have contributed to a diverse and comprehensive body of work.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "scGNN is a novel graph neural network framework for single-cell RNA-Seq analyses," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Integrative Methods and Practical Challenges for Single-Cell Multi-omics," 2020, Trends in Biotechnology
  • "Microglia coordinate cellular interactions during spinal cord repair in mice," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Improving protein-protein interactions prediction accuracy using XGBoost feature selection and stacked ensemble classifier," 2020, Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • "A shared disease-associated oligodendrocyte signature among multiple CNS pathologies," 2022, Nature Neuroscience

Their research findings have been disseminated in a variety of prominent venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • Briefings in Bioinformatics

Qin Ma's work often intersects computational methods and biological applications, notably advancing approaches in machine learning and bioinformatics to analyze complex genetic and cellular data. This includes developing novel frameworks for single-cell RNA sequencing data interpretation and enhancing protein-protein interaction prediction techniques.

The diversity of their research spans from cancer-related gene expression studies to neuroinflammation and regeneration mechanisms, reflecting a broad scientific scope within molecular biology and medical research.

Best Publications

  • scGNN is a novel graph neural network framework for single-cell RNA-Seq analyses.

    Juexin Wang;Anjun Ma;Yuzhou Chang;Jianting Gong

  • QUBIC: a qualitative biclustering algorithm for analyses of gene expression data

    Guojun Li;Qin Ma;Haibao Tang;Andrew H. Paterson

  • Interpretation of differential gene expression results of RNA-seq data: review and integration

    Adam McDermaid;Brandon Monier;Jing Zhao;Bingqiang Liu

  • LightGBM-PPI: Predicting protein-protein interactions through LightGBM with multi-information fusion

    Cheng Chen;Qingmei Zhang;Qin Ma;Bin Yu

  • Integrative Methods and Practical Challenges for Single-Cell Multi-omics.

    Anjun Ma;Adam McDermaid;Adam McDermaid;Jennifer Xu;Jennifer Xu;Yuzhou Chang

  • Improving protein-protein interactions prediction accuracy using XGBoost feature selection and stacked ensemble classifier

    Cheng Chen;Qingmei Zhang;Bin Yu;Bin Yu;Zhaomin Yu

  • Predicting drug-target interactions using Lasso with random forest based on evolutionary information and chemical structure

    Han Shi;Simin Liu;Simin Liu;Junqi Chen;Junqi Chen;Xuan Li

  • A graph neural network model to estimate cell-wise metabolic flux using single-cell RNA-seq data.

    Norah Alghamdi;Wennan Chang;Wennan Chang;Pengtao Dang;Pengtao Dang;Xiaoyu Lu

  • Clustering and classification methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing data.

    Ren Qi;Anjun Ma;Qin Ma;Quan Zou

  • DOOR 2.0: presenting operons and their functions through dynamic and integrated views.

    Xizeng Mao;Qin Ma;Chuan Zhou;Xin Chen

  • SubMito-XGBoost: predicting protein submitochondrial localization by fusing multiple feature information and eXtreme gradient boosting.

    Bin Yu;Wenying Qiu;Cheng Chen;Anjun Ma

  • Protein-protein interaction sites prediction by ensemble random forests with synthetic minority oversampling technique.

    Xiaoying Wang;Xiaoying Wang;Bin Yu;Bin Yu;Anjun Ma;Anjun Ma;Cheng Chen

  • Metabolomics and Multi-Omics Integration: A Survey of Computational Methods and Resources

    Tara Eicher;Tara Eicher;Garrett Kinnebrew;Andrew Patt;Andrew Patt;Kyle Spencer

  • scREAD: A Single-Cell RNA-Seq Database for Alzheimer's Disease.

    Jing Jiang;Cankun Wang;Ren Qi;Hongjun Fu

  • LncFinder: an integrated platform for long non-coding RNA identification utilizing sequence intrinsic composition, structural information and physicochemical property.

    Siyu Han;Yanchun Liang;Qin Ma;Yangyi Xu

  • Network analyses in microbiome based on high-throughput multi-omics data.

    Zhaoqian Liu;Anjun Ma;Ewy A. Mathé;Marlena Merling

  • Gene regulatory networks for lignin biosynthesis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)

    Xiaolan Rao;Xiaolan Rao;Xin Chen;Hui Shen;Hui Shen;Qin Ma

  • Inductive inference of gene regulatory network using supervised and semi-supervised graph neural networks

    Juexin Wang;Anjun Ma;Qin Ma;Dong Xu

  • Systems-level understanding of ethanol-induced stresses and adaptation in E. coli.

    Huansheng Cao;Du Wei;Du Wei;Yuedong Yang;Yu Shang;Yu Shang

  • It is time to apply biclustering: a comprehensive review of biclustering applications in biological and biomedical data.

    Juan Xie;Anjun Ma;Anne Fennell;Qin Ma

  • QUBIC: a Bioconductor package for qualitative biclustering analysis of gene co-expression data

    Yu Zhang;Juan Xie;Jinyu Yang;Anne Fennell

  • Prediction of regulatory motifs from human Chip-sequencing data using a deep learning framework.

    Jinyu Yang;Jinyu Yang;Anjun Ma;Adam D Hoppe;Cankun Wang

  • scGNN: a novel graph neural network framework for single-cell RNA-Seq analyses

    Juexin Wang;Anjun Ma;Yuzhou Chang;Jianting Gong

Frequent Co-Authors

Ying Xu
Ying Xu University of Georgia
Dong Xu
Dong Xu University of Missouri
Zihai Li
Zihai Li The Ohio State University
Quan Zou
Quan Zou University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Jun Yu
Jun Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Carlo M. Croce
Carlo M. Croce The Ohio State University
Yanchun Liang
Yanchun Liang Jilin University
Ying Li
Ying Li Nanjing Agricultural University
Richard A. Dixon
Richard A. Dixon University of North Texas
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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