The Center for Applied Bioinformatics (CAB) was established in 2019 with a mission to provide centralized genomic and bioinformatic analytic services for investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The CAB is composed of research scientists and software engineers of diverse background and expertise, covering the areas of genomics, genetics, transcriptomics and epigenetics.
The key responsibilities of the CAB include:
- Consult with St. Jude investigators on optimal experimental design for bioinformatics analyses
- Develop state-of-art, open-access computational pipelines to address the most needed bioinformatics analyses in the institution
- Provide standard and customized bioinformatics analyses to St. Jude investigators
- Train students, postdoctoral fellows and staff scientists in standard bioinformatics analyses using pipelines deployed either in-house or by public web applications and software
- Maintain the common reference annotation and datasets shared across the institution
The CAB strives to deliver high-quality results in a timely manner and emphasizes applied and expedient genetic and bioinformatics analyses for St. Jude research laboratories. It advocates a culture of open science and promotes a highly collaborative environment for joint computational tool development across various computational groups within the institution to support the mission of St. Jude and the research efforts of St. Jude investigators.
Gang Wu, PhD, is director of the Center for Applied Bioinformatics and assistant member of the St. Jude Faculty.
Employee Spotlight: Corey Xu
As a bioinformatics research scientist, Corey Xu, Ph.D., focuses on brain tumor genomics powered by next-generation sequencing technologies. “I chose to come to St. Jude because I was inspired by the mission it stands for, and I was really impressed by the research capacity when I was interviewing here.” He works on several projects in the CAB, including working with clinicians at St. Jude to characterize the genomic landscape and mutational signatures of radiation therapy-induced high-grade gliomas.
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Ti-Cheng Chang, PhD
Chang
- Group Lead, Genomics
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Wenan Chen, PhD
Chen
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist, R & D
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Zhongshan Cheng, PhD
Cheng
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Genomics
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Mohamed Nadhir Djekidel, PhD
Djekidel
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Epigenetics
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Yiping Fan, PhD
Fan
- Associate Director, Functional Genomics
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Dale Hedges, PhD
Hedges
- Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Transcriptomics
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Yawei Hui, PhD
Hui
- Manager, Bioinformatics Software DevOps
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Jason Myers, MS
Myers
- Bioinformatics Analyst III, Genetics
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Evadnie Rampersaud, PhD, MSPH
Rampersaud
- Group Lead, Genetics
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Sara Rashkin, PhD
Rashkin
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Genetics
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Wojciech Rosikiewicz, PhD
Rosikiewicz
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Epigenetics
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Patrick Schreiner, PhD
Schreiner
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Transcriptomics
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Shibiao Wan, PhD
Wan
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Transcriptomics
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Xun Zhu, PhD
Zhu
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist, DevOps
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