Editorial Board Member - JCSB
Yanni Sun
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Yanni Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xi'an JiaoTong University in 1998 and 2001 respectively, both in Computer Science. She received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Washington University in Saint Louis in 2008. She works in bioinformatics and computational biology. In particular, her recent research interests include sequence analysis, next-generation sequencing data analysis, protein domain annotation, and noncoding RNA annotation. She was a recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2010.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Bioinformatics/computational biology: algorithm design for large-scale sequence database analysis, protein domain and noncoding RNA identification in the next-generation sequencing data (RNA-Seq and Metagenomic data), genome-scale noncoding RNA search, sequence similarity search, protein domain classification, miRNA identification, CRISPR annotation in metagenomic data.
Other Editorial Board Members - JCSB
Valery Soyfer
Department of Molecular & Microbiology
George Mason University
United States
Yinghao Wu
Department of Systems & Computational Biology
Yeshiva University
United States
Wynand S. Verwoerd
Department of Wine, Food & Molecular Biosciences
Lincoln University
New Zealand
K. RAMANATHAN
Industrial Biotechnology Division
School of Bio Sciences and Technology
VIT University
INDIA
Serafim Batzoglou
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
United States
Kang Ning
Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Petras Kundrotas
Center for Bioinformatics
The University of Kansas
United States
