June-2013, Yucheng Shao was awarded for the outstanding master's thesis, Shanghai (2012). Congratulations!

He had developed the mpiBLAST-based online tool mGenomeSubtractor to perform genome comparisons of Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces lividans. In addition, he had also developed the open-access database TADB to record comprehensive information about Type 2 toxin-antitoxin loci, which had been found to induce the programmed cell death and may regulate the genomic stability.

The Shanghai Education Commission released the 2012 Shanghai Award of Graduate Students Academic Dissertation. The award commission had selected 169 outstanding Master's thesis, of which 13 came from the biology subject.