Zhu’s lab was launched since 2005, with a thriving and diverse group of young researchers from the background of mathematics, physics, mechanics and computer science. The long-term of the lab is to understand the biological complex systems based on the level of genome, protein sequence and protein structure, and develop a variety of methods and tools in the emerging field of computational system biology and bioinformatics. During recent years, the lab has obtained continual grants and funding from China government. Currently the lab has several focuses in the field:

(1) Genome analysis and gene prediction methods and tools on microbial genomes and metagenomes;

(2) Comparative genomics and genome evolution for environmental microbes and human health-associated microbes;

(3) Network and mechanism associated with splicing and alternative splicing of exons/introns in eukaryotic genomes;

(4) Data mining in biomedicine.

The lab has developed a series of bioinformatics methods in prokaryotic gene prediction, eukaryotic gene prediction, protein second structure prediction, and protein folding analysis. Our methods have been applied in several bacterial genome sequencing projects. Our research has been cited or highlighted by the academic community, such as in journals of Nature, Nat. Methods, and Nat. Rev. Microbiol. etc.
There are many opportunities to join the group: as a student doing Ph. D. research or M. S. thesis, or as an undergraduate who wants to learn more about academic research. Please contact