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Computer Science
Australia
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
65
Citations
12733
World Ranking
2501
National Ranking
75

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Yaoqi Zhou is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research contributions span various subfields including Molecular Biology, Geology, Infectious Diseases, Materials Chemistry, and Plant Science.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, machine learning applications in bioinformatics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protein structure and dynamics, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA research and splicing, as well as hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Structure-aware protein-protein interaction site prediction using deep graph convolutional network, 2021, Bioinformatics
  • Improved RNA secondary structure and tertiary base-pairing prediction using evolutionary profile, mutational coupling and two-dimensional transfer learning, 2021, Bioinformatics
  • DescribePROT: database of amino acid-level protein structure and function predictions, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Multiple sequence alignment-based RNA language model and its application to structural inference, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research

Yaoqi Zhou has published extensively in several venues, with notable contributions in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bioinformatics
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Zhou's research, with frequent co-authors including Jian Zhan, Thomas Litfin, Jaswinder Singh, Kuldip K. Paliwal, and Jaspreet Singh. This network reflects a multidisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

Best Publications

  • Capturing non-local interactions by long short-term memory bidirectional recurrent neural networks for improving prediction of protein secondary structure, backbone angles, contact numbers and solvent accessibility.

    Rhys Heffernan;Yuedong Yang;Kuldip K. Paliwal;Yaoqi Zhou

  • Real-time reliable determination of binding kinetics of DNA hybridization using a multi-channel graphene biosensor

    Shicai Xu;Jian Zhan;Baoyuan Man;Shouzhen Jiang

  • Improving protein fold recognition and template-based modeling by employing probabilistic-based matching between predicted one-dimensional structural properties of query and corresponding native properties of templates

    Yuedong Yang;Eshel Faraggi;Huiying Zhao;Yaoqi Zhou

  • RNA secondary structure prediction using an ensemble of two-dimensional deep neural networks and transfer learning.

    Jaswinder Singh;Jack Hanson;Kuldip Paliwal;Yaoqi Zhou

  • Improving prediction of secondary structure, local backbone angles, and solvent accessible surface area of proteins by iterative deep learning.

    Rhys Heffernan;Kuldip Paliwal;James Lyons;Abdollah Dehzangi

  • Improving protein disorder prediction by deep bidirectional long short-term memory recurrent neural networks.

    Jack Hanson;Yuedong Yang;Kuldip K. Paliwal;Yaoqi Zhou

  • Protein binding site prediction using an empirical scoring function

    Shide Liang;Chi Zhang;Song Liu;Yaoqi Zhou

  • Fold recognition by combining sequence profiles derived from evolution and from depth‐dependent structural alignment of fragments

    Hongyi Zhou;Yaoqi Zhou

  • SPINE X: Improving protein secondary structure prediction by multistep learning coupled with prediction of solvent accessible surface area and backbone torsion angles

    Eshel Faraggi;Tuo Zhang;Tuo Zhang;Yuedong Yang;Yuedong Yang;Lukasz A. Kurgan;Lukasz A. Kurgan

  • Sixty-five years of the long march in protein secondary structure prediction: the final stretch?

    Yuedong Yang;Jianzhao Gao;Jihua Wang;Rhys Heffernan

  • Single-body residue-level knowledge-based energy score combined with sequence-profile and secondary structure information for fold recognition

    Hongyi Zhou;Yaoqi Zhou

  • Improving prediction of protein secondary structure, backbone angles, solvent accessibility and contact numbers by using predicted contact maps and an ensemble of recurrent and residual convolutional neural networks

    Jack Hanson;Kuldip K. Paliwal;Thomas Litfin;Yuedong Yang

  • Folding rate prediction using total contact distance.

    Hongyi Zhou;Yaoqi Zhou

  • SPINE-D: Accurate Prediction of Short and Long Disordered Regions by a Single Neural-Network Based Method

    Tuo Zhang;Eshel Faraggi;Bin Xue;A. Keith Dunker

  • Accurate prediction of protein contact maps by coupling residual two-dimensional bidirectional long short-term memory with convolutional neural networks.

    Jack Hanson;Kuldip K. Paliwal;Thomas Litfin;Yuedong Yang;Yuedong Yang

  • Achieving 80% ten‐fold cross‐validated accuracy for secondary structure prediction by large‐scale training

    Ofer Dor;Yaoqi Zhou

  • SPIDER2: A Package to Predict Secondary Structure, Accessible Surface Area, and Main-Chain Torsional Angles by Deep Neural Networks

    Yuedong Yang;Rhys Heffernan;Kuldip Paliwal;James Lyons

  • Predicting backbone Cα angles and dihedrals from protein sequences by stacked sparse auto-encoder deep neural network.

    James G. Lyons;Abdollah Dehzangi;Abdollah Dehzangi;Rhys Heffernan;Alok Sharma;Alok Sharma

  • Structure-aware protein-protein interaction site prediction using deep graph convolutional network.

    Qianmu Yuan;Jianwen Chen;Huiying Zhao;Yaoqi Zhou

  • SPOT-Disorder2: Improved Protein Intrinsic Disorder Prediction by Ensembled Deep Learning

    Jack Hanson;Kuldip K. Paliwal;Thomas Litfin;Yaoqi Zhou

  • Community-wide assessment of protein-interface modeling suggests improvements to design methodology

    Sarel J. Fleishman;Sarel J. Fleishman;Timothy A. Whitehead;Eva Maria Strauch;Jacob E. Corn;Jacob E. Corn

  • Improving the prediction accuracy of residue solvent accessibility and real-value backbone torsion angles of proteins by guided-learning through a two-layer neural network.

    Eshel Faraggi;Bin Xue;Bin Xue;Yaoqi Zhou;Yaoqi Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuedong Yang
Yuedong Yang Sun Yat-sen University
Kuldip K. Paliwal
Kuldip K. Paliwal Griffith University
Chi Zhang
Chi Zhang Hohai University
David Neil Cooper
David Neil Cooper Cardiff University
Matthew Mort
Matthew Mort Cardiff University
Yunlong Liu
Yunlong Liu Indiana University
Abdul Sattar
Abdul Sattar Griffith University
Abdollah Dehzangi
Abdollah Dehzangi Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lukasz Kurgan
Lukasz Kurgan Virginia Commonwealth University
Alok Sharma
Alok Sharma Griffith University

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