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[Oct. 2025] Shichao Feng successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations on this significant achievement!

[Oct. 2025] Our paper "Enhancing peptide identification in metaproteomics through curriculum learning in deep learning" has been accepted and published in Nature Communications.

[Aug. 2025] Our paper "DiffNovo: A Transformer-Diffusion Model for De Novo Peptide Sequencing" has been accepted and published in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: 17th International Conference, BICOB 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 17, 2025, Proceedings.

[Feb. 2025] Shiva Ebrahimi successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations on this significant achievement!

[Aug. 2024] Our paper "Proteomic stable isotope probing with an upgraded Sipros algorithm for improved identification and quantification of isotopically labeled proteins" has been accepted and published in Microbiome.

[Jul. 2024] Our paper "SEMQuant: Extending Sipros-Ensemble with Match-Between-Runs for Comprehensive Quantitative Metaproteomics" has been accepted and published in International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications.

[Feb. 2024] Our paper "CloudProteoAnalyzer: scalable processing of big data from proteomics using cloud computing" was published by Bioinformatics Advances.

[Dec. 2023] Our paper "Transformer-based de novo peptide sequencing for data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry" was accepted by 2023 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE).

[Dec. 2022] Our papers "IDIA: An Integrative Signal Extractor for Data-Independent Acquisition Proteomics", "Deep Learning Based MS2 Feature Detection for Data-Independent Shotgun Proteomics", and "FineFDR: Fine-grained Taxonomy-specific False Discovery Rates Control in Metaproteomics" were accepted by 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM).

[Jan. 2022] Welcome Shengze Wang and Kulthum Lakha joined our group as undergraduate research assistants.

[Nov. 2021] Our paper "Identifying and Evaluating Anomalous Structural Change-based Nodes in Generalized Dynamic Social Networks" was published by ACM Transactions on the Web.

[Oct. 2021] Our paper "Predicting psoriasis using routine laboratory tests with random forest" was accepted by PLOS ONE.

[Aug. 2021] Our proposal "Proteomic Stable Isotope Probing as a Novel Approach for Linking Prebiotics with Active Gut Microbiota;" was funded by NIH/NCCIH.

[Aug. 2021] Our paper "Deep learning for peptide identification from metaproteomics datasets" was accepted by Journal of Proteomics.

[Jan. 2021] Welcome Ryan Sterzenbach and Gloire Eunice Benga Ikambouayat joined our group as undergraduate research assistants.

[Sep. 2020] Our paper "JS-MA: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Based Method for Mapping Genome-wide Associations on Multiple Diseases" was accepted by Frontiers in Genetics.

[Aug. 2020] Welcome Rubenia Borge Borge Flores and Reynaldo Quiroz Heredia joined our group as Ph.D. students.

[Jul. 2021] Our proposal "A Computational Framework for Protein Identification and Quantification in Metaproteomics Using Data-Independent Acquisition" was funded by NIH/NLM.

[Jun. 2020] Our paper "TS: a powerful truncated test to detect novel disease associated genes using publicly available GWAS summary data" was accepted by BMC bioinformatics.

[Jun. 2020] Our paper "Semi-global Alignment of Range Videos" was accepted by the International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications 2020.

[Feb. 2020] Welcome Shiva Ebrahimi as a Ph.D. student to our group.

[Dec. 2019] Our paper "Genome-Resolved Proteomic Stable Isotope Probing of Soil Microbial Communities using 13CO2 and 13C-methanol" was accepted by Frontiers Microbiology.

[Oct. 2019] Our paper "BAM: A block-based Bayesian method for detecting genome-wide associations with multiple diseases" was accepted by Tsinghua Science and Technology.

[Aug. 2019] Welcome Bailu Zhang as a Ph.D. student to our group.

[Jul. 2019] Our paper "A new statistical method to detect novel disease associated genes using publicly available GWAS summary data" was accepted by GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY.

[Jun. 2019] Our paper "Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Automated Detection of Mind Wandering using EEG Signals" was accepted in ACM-BCB'19.

[Sep. 2018] Welcome Jiancheng Li as a Ph.D. student to our group.

[Apr. 2018] Welcome Shichao Feng as a Ph.D. student to our group.

[Jan. 2018] Our paper "Community proteogenomics reveals the systemic impact of phosphorus availability on microbial functions in tropical soil" was accepted in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

[Sep. 2017] Our paper "Sipros Ensemble Improves Database Searching and Filtering for Complex Metaproteomics" was accepted in Oxford Bioinformatics.

[Sep. 2017] Welcome Clayton Rowe as a master student to our group.

[Aug. 2017] Dr. Xuan Guo joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas.