Wei Shen
Postdoctoral researcher
Institute for Viral Hepatitis, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
Research Interests
- Large-scale biological sequence searching
- Taxonomic assignment and profiling
- Host-associated microbiomes
- Viral (Phage) genomics
- Reproducible tools for data science
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Publications
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Selected Publications
- W Shen, M Shen, X Zhao, et.al.,
Anti-obesity effect of capsaicin in mice fed with high-fat diet is associated with an increase in population of the gut bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila.
Frontiers in Microbiology 2017.
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00272
- W Shen, S Le, Y Li, F Hu.
SeqKit: a cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation.
PloS one 2016.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163962
- W Shen, Y Li.
A novel algorithm for detecting multiple covariance and clustering of biological sequences.
Scientific Reports 2016.
doi:10.1038/srep30425
- W Shen, M Chen, G Wei, Y Li.
MicroRNA prediction using a fixed-order Markov model based on the secondary structure pattern.
PloS one 2012.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048236
Softwares
More on Github
- SeqKit, fast and versatile toolkit for FASTA/Q file
- TaxonKit, practical and efficient NCBI Taxonomy toolkit
- unikmer, toolkit for nucleic acid k-mer analysis
- csvtk, efficient and practical CSV/TSV toolkit
- rush, command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel
- brename, command-line tool for safely batch renaming
Education
- PhD in Microbiolgy, 2017, Third Military Medical University, China
- MSc in Bioinformatics, 2013, Third Military Medical University, China
- BSc in Bioinformatics, 2010, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
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