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I am a PhD student at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Publications

  • Liu W, Zhang X. Single-cell alternative splicing analysis reveals dominance of single transcript variant. Genomics. 2020;112(3):2418-2425. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.01.014
  • Liu W, Shomron N. Analysis of microRNA Regulation in Single Cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2243:339-354. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-1103-6_18
  • Hu Z#, Liu W#, Hua X#, Chen X#, Chang Y, Hu Y, Xu Z, Song J. Single-Cell Transcriptomic Atlas of Different Human Cardiac Arteries Identifies Cell Types Associated With Vascular Physiology. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021;41(4):1408-1427. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.315373.
  • Dai Y, Yu H, Yan Q, Li B, Liu A, Liu W, Jiang X, Kim Y, Guo Y, Zhao Z. Drug-Target Network Study Reveals the Core Target-Protein Interactions of Various COVID-19 Treatments. Genes. 2022;13(7):1210. doi:10.3390/genes13071210
  • Liu W, Jia J, Dai Y, Chen W, Pei G, Yan Q, Zhao Z. Delineating COVID-19 immunological features using single-cell RNA sequencing. The Innovation. 2022;3(5):100289. doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100289
  • Liu W, Shomron N. Analysis of MicroRNA Regulation and Gene Expression Variability in Single Cell Data. J Pers Med. 2022;12(10):1750. doi:10.3390/jpm12101750
  • Liu W, Ye X, An Z, Zhao Z. The challenges and opportunities of scRNA-seq in COVID-19 research and clinical translation. Virol J. 2022;19(1):217. doi: 10.1186/s12985-022-01923-x.
  • Sheng Y, Wu L, Chang Y, Liu W, Tao M, Chen X, Zhang X, Li B, Zhang N, Ye D, Zhang C, Zhu D, Zhao H, Chen A, Chen H, Song J. Tomo-seq identifies NINJ1 as a potential target for anti-inflammatory strategy in thoracic aortic dissection. BMC Med. 2023 Oct 20;21(1):396. doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-03077-1.
  • Liu W, Li W, Zhao Z. Single-cell transcriptomics reveals pre-existing COVID-19 vulnerability factors in lung cancer patients. Mol Cancer Res. 2023. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-23-0692.

# Co-first author

Softwares

  • scRIN: Measuring the mRNA integrity in single-cell sequencing data
  • sc-miReg: Analysis of miRNA Regulation in Single Cells
  • tomoda: A R/Bioconductor package for tomo-seq data analysis
  • GAN-DP: A StyleGAN2-based method to create semantic image-drived phenotypes