Zuguang Gu
Professor at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolZuguang Gu is a Senior Bioinformagician at DKFZ with 13+ years of experience applying omics analysis to precision medicine and clinical projects. He is the author of 18 R packages—most notably ComplexHeatmap and circlize—that have become de facto visualization standards and together exceed 5 million downloads. He has published 45 papers (20 as first or corresponding author), accrued over 10,000 Google Scholar citations with an h-index of 27, and was ranked among the top 2% of highly cited scientists in 2022. Equally at home writing low-level plotting code and designing clinical data browsers, he is a Bioconductor-certified Carpentries instructor and developer of official Bioconductor training courses.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biology and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biology and Molecular Biology at Nanjing University
English, Chinese, eryaonese
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Github Skills (15)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
graphics-programming10
r9
plot9
heatmap6
complexheatmap6
visualization6
chord-diagram6
geometry6
colors6
bslib6
ggplot26
circos6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jokergoo/circlize
Apr 2013 - Dec 2022
Circular visualization in R
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:893 commits, 8 PRs, 392 pushes in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Zuguang primarily contributed to the user interface and internal functions of the R package. They made changes to the plot.R file and the utils.R files, suggesting enhancements to both visual representations (bars, links, axes) and the underlying data processing. The addition of a "draw.sector" function and related refinements also suggest work on low-level graphics, possibly improving plotting capabilities.
circulardata-visualizationvisualization
jokergoo/ComplexHeatmap-reference
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Documentation of ComplexHeatmap package
Contributions:36 commits, 3 PRs, 153 pushes in 3 years 2 months
complexheatmap
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