Zhenjiang Xu
Professor at State Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University
China
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Top SchoolZhenjiang Xu is a professor and computational biologist with 12 years of experience bridging bioinformatics research and software engineering, currently leading a lab at Nanchang University under the 1000 Talent Program. He completed a PhD in bioinformatics/biophysics and advanced microbiome and ncRNA research during postdoctoral work at the Rob Knight Lab, combining deep domain expertise with practical algorithm development. His open-source contributions to scikit-bio include implementing robust GFF3 and GenBank readers/writers and improving test automation, strengthening a widely used Python library for bioinformatics. Zhenjiang’s work spans novel ncRNA secondary structure prediction, de novo ncRNA identification, and scalable microbiome analyses, reflecting both theoretical and applied strengths. He blends academic leadership with hands-on software craftsmanship, often improving reproducibility and testability in community tools. Outside the obvious research record, he has practical experience in diagnostics manufacturing QC, giving him a grounded perspective on translational workflows.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, Biotechnology, A, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, Biotechnology, A at Beijing Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Biophysics, A, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Biophysics, A at University of Rochester
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
bioinformatics10
python10
testing10
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-bio/scikit-bio
Jun 2014 - Apr 2018
scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 62 commits, 48 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Zhenjiang primarily contributed to the `scikit-bio` library by modifying and implementing new functionality for the GFF3 and GenBank formats, which included implementing new readers, writers, and associated tests to ensure proper functionality. Furthermore, the user made changes related to tests, including improving the error identification, improving the test of existing functionalities, and fixing several bugs. This work enhances the library's utility for bioinformatics data processing and analysis.
scikitlicensedpythondata-sciencealgorithms-and-data-structures
RNAer/scikit-bio
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 201 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 9 months
biologicalbiological-datastatisticspython
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