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  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ying Xu is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States and primarily works in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a concentration in Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Cancer Research, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Immunology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism, RNA modifications and cancer, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Gene expression and cancer classification, and Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications.

Ying Xu has been published frequently in venues including Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, SSRN Electronic Journal, Research Square, arXiv, and Nature Communications.

Among the recent publications are:

  • Modern deep learning in bioinformatics, 2020, Journal of Molecular Cell Biology
  • Advances in targeting histone deacetylase for treatment of solid tumors, 2024, Journal of Hematology & Oncology
  • Metabolic Reprogramming in Cancer Is Induced to Increase Proton Production, 2020, Cancer Research
  • Typing of cancer cells by microswimmer based on Co-Fe-MOF for one-step simultaneously detect multiple biomarkers, 2023, Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • Transcriptomic analysis identifies organ-specific metastasis genes and pathways across different primary sites, 2021, Journal of Translational Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include Yi Zhou, Zhike Zhou, Chuansheng Zhao, Mei Zhao, and Jun Bai.

Ying Xu was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • dbCAN2: a meta server for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation

    Han Zhang;Tanner Yohe;Le Huang;Sarah Entwistle

  • dbCAN: a web resource for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation.

    Yanbin Yin;Xizeng Mao;Jincai Yang;Xin Chen

  • Activin A Efficiently Specifies Definitive Endoderm from Human Embryonic Stem Cells Only When Phosphatidylinositol 3‐Kinase Signaling Is Suppressed

    Amanda B McLean;Kevin A D'Amour;Karen Louise Jones;Malini Krishnamoorthy

  • Mapping Aβ amyloid fibril secondary structure using scanning proline mutagenesis

    Angela D. Williams;Erik Portelius;Indu Kheterpal;Jun-tao Guo

  • DOOR: a database for prokaryotic operons

    Fenglou Mao;Phuongan Dam;Jacky Chou;Victor Olman

  • Clustering gene expression data using a graph-theoretic approach: an application of minimum spanning trees.

    Ying Xu;Victor Olman;Dong Xu

  • RAPTOR: optimal protein threading by linear programming.

    Jinbo Xu;Ming Li;Dongsup Kim;Ying Xu

  • The Last Universal Common Ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner

    Nicolas Glansdorff;Ying Xu;Bernard Labedan

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

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

  • Protein threading using PROSPECT: design and evaluation.

    Ying Xu;Dong Xu

  • Dry sliding wear behavior of magnesium alloys

    J. An;R.G. Li;Y. Lu;C.M. Chen

  • SUMOsp: a web server for sumoylation site prediction

    Yu Xue;Fengfeng Zhou;Chuanhai Fu;Ying Xu

  • Discovering and understanding genes in human DNA sequence using GRAIL.

    Edward C. Uberbacher;Ying Xu;Richard J. Mural

  • An integrated transcriptomic and computational analysis for biomarker identification in gastric cancer

    Juan Cui;Yunbo Chen;Wen Chi Chou;Liankun Sun

  • Improved peptide elution time prediction for reversed-phase liquid chromatography-MS by incorporating peptide sequence information

    Konstantinos Petritis;Lars J. Kangas;Bo Yan;Matthew E. Monroe

  • Operon prediction using both genome-specific and general genomic information

    Phuongan Dam;Victor Olman;Kyle Harris;Zhengchang Su

  • Current Topics in Computational Molecular Biology

    Tao Jiang;Michael Zhang;Ying Xu

  • Evaluation of 50-mer oligonucleotide arrays for detecting microbial populations in environmental samples.

    Sonia M. Tiquia;Liyou Wu;Song C. Chong;Sergei Passovets

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

    Xizeng Mao;Qin Ma;Chuan Zhou;Xin Chen

  • A bioinformatic analysis of NAC genes for plant cell wall development in relation to lignocellulosic bioenergy production.

    Hui Shen;Yanbin Yin;Yanbin Yin;Fang Chen;Ying Xu;Ying Xu

  • Prediction of functional modules based on comparative genome analysis and Gene Ontology application

    Hongwei Wu;Zhengchang Su;Fenglou Mao;Victor Olman

Frequent Co-Authors

Dong Xu
Dong Xu University of Missouri
Tao Jiang
Tao Jiang University of California, Riverside
Qin Ma
Qin Ma The Ohio State University
Michael Q. Zhang
Michael Q. Zhang The University of Texas at Dallas
David Puett
David Puett University of Georgia
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia
Brian Palenik
Brian Palenik University of California, San Diego
Guohui Lin
Guohui Lin University of Alberta
Michael G. Hahn
Michael G. Hahn University of Georgia
Richard A. Dixon
Richard A. Dixon University of North Texas

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