Zhiping Weng

Zhiping Weng
Alma mater	University of Science and Technology of China (BSc) Boston University (PhD)
Awards	ISCB Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics Computational biology Genomics Epigenomics Transcriptional regulation [1]
Institutions	University of Massachusetts
Thesis	Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations  (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Charles DeLisi [2]
Website	www.umassmed.edu/zlab/

Zhiping Weng is the Li Weibo Professor of Biomedical Research and founding Chair of Department of Genomics and Computational Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. ^{[3] [4]} Prior to that, she was the Director of the Program in Integrative Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. ^{[1] [5] [6] [7]} She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics. ^{[8] [9]}

Education

Weng was educated at the University of Science and Technology of China ^[10] and Boston University where her PhD on the biochemistry of protein-ligand binding was supervised by Charles DeLisi and awarded in 1997. ^{[11] [2]}

Career and research

Weng'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, ^[12] leadership of ENCODE, ^{[13] [14]} PsychENCODE, ^[15] and work on small RNA biology and piwi-interacting RNA (piRNAs). ^{[1] [5] [6]}

Awards and honors

Weng is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) ^[9] and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).^{[ when? ]}

References

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3. "Genomics and Computational Biology". UMass Chan Medical School. 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
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5. Zhiping Weng publications from Europe PubMed Central
6. Zhiping Weng at DBLP Bibliography Server
7. Zhiping Weng publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
8. Anon (2020). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
9. Anon (2020). "ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". iscb.org.
10. "Zhiping Weng | Profiles RNS". profiles.umassmed.edu.
11. Weng, Zhiping (1997). Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (PhD thesis). Boston University. OCLC   38760266. ProQuest   304338123 ProQuest   304338123.
12. Chen, Rong; Li, Li; Weng, Zhiping (2003). "ZDOCK: An initial-stage protein-docking algorithm". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics. 52 (1): 80–87. doi:10.1002/prot.10389. ISSN   0887-3585. PMID   12784371. S2CID   14465607.
13. The ENCODE Project Consortium (2007). "Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project". Nature. 447 (7146): 799–816. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..799B. doi:10.1038/nature05874. ISSN   0028-0836. PMC   2212820 . PMID   17571346.
14. The ENCODE Project Consortium (2012). "An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome". Nature. 489 (7414): 57–74. Bibcode:2012Natur.489...57T. doi:10.1038/nature11247. ISSN   0028-0836. PMC   3439153 . PMID   22955616.
15. Akbarian, Schahram; Liu, Chunyu; Knowles, James A; Vaccarino, Flora M; Farnham, Peggy J; Crawford, Gregory E; Jaffe, Andrew E; Pinto, Dalila; Dracheva, Stella; Geschwind, Daniel H; Mill, Jonathan; et al. (2015). "The PsychENCODE project". Nature Neuroscience. 18 (12): 1707–1712. doi:10.1038/nn.4156. ISSN   1097-6256. PMC   4675669 . PMID   26605881.