Hongkai’s Research Group

Welcome to Hongkai Ji’s Research Group

The major research interest of our lab is computational biology. We are particularly interested in developing statistical and computational methods for analyzing high-throughput genomic data, and we apply these analytical tools to study gene regulation.

News:

 

1. Yeung Center grant for Johns Hopkins - Nanjing Exchange Program in Statistical and Data Sciences will open a summer training program in biostatistics in Nanjing University (July 11-22, 2011). Lectures will be offered by Prof. Karen Bandeen-Roche, Rafael Irizarry, Mei-Cheng Wang and Hongkai Ji. Top two Chinese students in the program and one young faculty will be invited to visit Johns Hopkins during 2011-2012. Expense is covered by the Yeung Center grant. Register for the courses in order to be qualified. [Link]

2. New database: hmChIP - the largest collection of human and mouse ChIP-seq and ChIP-chip data is now released [Link] [Paper].

3. New Cell paper is published on Jun 25: Huang et al. (2010) Mobile interspersed repeats are major structural variants in the human genome. 141: 1171-1182.

4. New grant: Our proposed research on a novel motif in human embryonic stem cells  has been funded by Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (PI: Zeller, co-PI: Ji & Dang).