xingxus profile

About me

Username:	xingxu
Name:	Dandan
Job title:	Graduate Student
Affiliation:	Cornell/MSKCC
Web page:	Not specified
Joined:	2007-08-01

What I do

Pipetting monkey, 180wpm infinite loop programmer, literature spelunker, other similarly useful scientific ventures

Interests

biology: immunology, microbiology, infectious disease, genomics, environmental metagenomics, molecular evolution, sociobiology, cancer genetics, bioinformatics, next generation sequencing, emerging viruses

other: 20th century chinese history, post-web 2.0 internet, application of internet communities to social science & epidemiology studies

Recent Activity

2008-07-29

20:43: posted Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq.

2008-07-17

22:58: posted Clues to function in gene deserts
21:27: posted Novel Crohn disease locus identified by genome-wide association maps to a gene desert on 5p13.1 and modulates expression of PTGER4.
21:07: posted How to interpret a genome-wide association study.
17:59: posted 8q24 and prostate cancer: association with advanced disease and meta-analysis
17:45: posted Multiple Loci With Different Cancer Specificities Within the 8q24 Gene Desert
15:51: posted Are Rare Variants Responsible for Susceptibility to Complex Diseases

2008-07-14

15:26: posted Concerted evolution between duplicated genetic elements in Helicobacter pylori.