Zhiping Weng
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| Alma mater | University of Science and Technology of China (BSc) Boston University (PhD) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Institutions | University of Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thesis | Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (1997) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Charles DeLisi[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www University of Massachusetts Medical School.[1][3][4][5] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.[6][7]
EducationWeng was educated at the PhD on the biochemistry of protein-ligand binding was supervised by Charles DeLisi and awarded in 1997.[9][2]
Career and researchWeng's research interests are in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, epigenomics and transcriptional regulation.[1] She is known for her ZDOCK suite of protein-protein docking algorithms,[10] leadership of ENCODE,[11][12] PsychENCODE,[13] and work on small RNA biology and piwi-interacting RNA (piRNAs).[1][3][4] Awards and honorsWeng is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)[7] and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).[when?] References
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