Degui Zhi, Ph.D.
 | Department of Biostatistics Ryals Public Health Bldg 327L University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35294 Phone: (205) 975-9192 Fax: (205) 975-2540 E-mail: dzhi@ms.soph.uab.edu Full CV |
Dr. Zhi received his Ph.D. in bioinformatics from University of California, San Diego in 2006. He then took his postdoctoral training in computational genomics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Section on Statistical Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as an assistant professor in March 2009. His research area spans DNA fragment assembly, multiple sequence alignment, genomic repeat analysis, and analysis of nonallelic gene conversion. His current research interests include protein function prediction from structure and methodological development of genome-wide association studies.
Publications
- 2007
- 2006
- pre 2006
- D. Zhi, M. Shatsky, and S.E. Brenner. “Alignment-Free Local Structural Search by Writhe Decomposition”, abstract Accepted to The Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) for oral presentation, 2007. Extended journal version in preparation. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74126-8_18]
- D. Zhi. “Sequence correlation between neighboring Alu instances suggests postretrotransposition sequence exchange due to Alu gene conversion”, Gene, 390(1- 2):117-21, 2007. [PMID: 17134854]
- D. Zhi, U. Keich, P. Pevzner, S. Heber, and H. Tang. “Correcting base-assignment errors in repeat regions of shotgun assembly”, IEEE Transactions of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 4(1):54-64, 2007. [PMID: 17277413]
- D. Zhi, S.S. Krishna, H. Cao, P. Pevzner, and A. Godzik. “Representing and comparing protein structures as curves in three-dimensional space”, BMC Bioinformatics, 7:460, 2006. [PMID: 17052359] [DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-460]
- N. Jones, D. Zhi, and B. Raphael. “AliWABA: Alignment on the Web through an A-Bruijn Approach”, Nucleic Acid Research, Webserver issue, 34: W613-W616, 2006. [PMID: 16845083]
- D. Zhi, B. Raphael, A. Price, H. Tang, and P. Pevzner. “Identifying repeat domains in large genomes”, Genome Biology, 7(1):R7, 2006. [PMID: 16507140]
- S. Roepcke, D. Zhi, M. Vingron, and P. Arndt. “Identification of highly specific localized sequence motifs in human ribosomal protein gene promoters”, Gene, 365:48-56. 2006. [PMID: 16343812]
- B. Raphael, D. Zhi, H. Tang, and P. Pevzner. “A Novel method for multiple alignment of sequences with repeated and shuffled elements”, Genome Research, 14: 2336-46, 2004. [PMID: 15520295]
- X. Chen, Z.L. Ji, D.G. Zhi, and Y.Z. Chen. “CLiBE: a database of computed ligand binding energy for ligand/receptor complexes”, Computers & Chemistry. 26(6): 661- 6, 2002. [PMID: 12385480]
- Y.Z. Chen, and D.G. Zhi. “Ligand-protein inverse docking and its potential use in computer search of putative protein targets of a drug”, Proteins, 43(2): 217-26, 2001. [PMID: 11276090]