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Computational Chemistry and Molecular Bioinformatics
Research Interest
By incorporating informatics and computation, we study molecular basis of epigenetic, protein endogenous chemical
modification, and enzymatic reaction.
1. Computational Chemical Biology: study the chemical biology with molecular mechanistic and quantum mechanistic,
at the atomic-molecular and electronic level. We focus on physiochemical functions upon chemical modifications in
genomics and proteomics, such as protein S-nitrosylation and DNA-thiolation.
2. Enzyme Chemistry and Engineering: study mechanisms for enzymatic reactions, and then design particular substrates
for medical applications or artificial enzymes for industrial applications. We develop methods using template of nanozyme
and theozyme, and then apply for thioesterase, laccase, lipase, etc.
3. Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: mainly focus on abstracting information from public databases and literatures, which
is related to signal translation, metabolism and microbial biosynthesis, in order to understand functional genomics.
4. Algorithm implementation: develop semi-empirical methodology, such as tight-binding density function theory, for the
large-scale calculation in biochemistry. Develop new algorithms for large-scale computation.
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Molecular microbiology
The Microbial Bioinformatics Group at the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai Jiaotong University,
is focused on genome mining for bacterial mobile genetic elements, including: (i) characterization of the genomic islands
of Klebsiella pneumoniae and other Enterobacteriaceae opportunistic pathogens; (ii) development of the bioinformatics
tools/databases for island analysis; (iii) identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for antibiotics in Streptomyces genomes.
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