Tao Liu
Associate Professor
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTao Liu is an Associate Professor and computational biologist with 15 years of experience applying bioinformatics and algorithm development to cancer genomics. Based at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, he combines academic leadership with hands-on tool development, having contributed performance and format fixes to the widely used MACS ChIP-Seq analysis library. His background spans physics (BA) and a PhD in bioinformatics, and his work bridges transcriptional regulation research from Dana-Farber to translational oncology at Roswell Park. Known for optimizing code for speed and robustness, he brings a rare mix of deep algorithmic rigor and practical software engineering to large-scale genomic data problems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Nanjing UniversityPh.D, Bioinformatics, Ph.D, Bioinformatics at Insitute of Biophysics, CAS
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (10)
python10
optimization9
optimisation9
numerical-optimization9
algorithm9
code-optimization9
algorithms9
c178
version-control8
c118
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
macs3-project/MACS
Mar 2011 - Oct 2022
MACS -- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 releases, 19 reviews, 1074 commits in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tao primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the MACS2 library, a model-based analysis tool for ChIP-Seq data. Their work involved implementing features related to output format fixes for broadPeak and gappedPeak formats. They also enhanced the bdgcmp tool to support multiple methods and corrected issues with its logLR output. Moreover, the user was responsible for code cleanup, optimizing the code for speed improvements, and providing options like --shift, --d-min and --buffer-size.
model-basedchip-seqdnase-seqpythonpeak-caller
taoliu/taolib
Jan 2011 - Jan 2015
Tao Liu's open source libraries for bioinformatics (unstable, pre-alpha)
Contributions:24 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years
pre-alphabiologyfastqgenomicsbioinformatics
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