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Education l
Ph.D. Computer Science, University
of Waterloo (2003) l
M.Sc. Computer Science, Harbin
Institute of Technology, l
B.Sc. Computer Science, Harbin
Institute of Technology, Experiences l
Assistant Professor, University of
Prince Edward Island (Aug. 2004 - Present) l Graduate Faculty, University of Prince Edward Island (May. 2006 - Present) l
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of
Western Ontario (2003-2004) l
Lecturer, University of Waterloo
(1999) l
Associate Professor, Harbin Institute
of Technology, l
Assistant Professor, Harbin Institute
of Technology, Research Interests I am currently conducting research
in the field of bioinformatics. This is essentially a cross between
biology and computer science. My particular interest evolved as a result of
my trying to interpret very long DNA sequences. The information is so long
that it is hard to interpret without some sort of visual representation,
which is what I am exploring. Currently, there are several ways to visually
represent DNA, but I am investigating a method known as CGR (chaos game
representation). This method displays the primary DNA sequence organization
for a sequence of any length, including entire genomes. The goal of my research is to compare
similarities and differences between species using bioinformatics. This is
useful for classifying species in a phylogenetic tree. I am trying to find
genomic signatures that can relate two species based on similar DNA. In other
words, finding a genomic signature is finding something specific to a
species, distinguishing it from all other species. The CGR method visually
shows these genomic signatures. When comparing two species that share similar
DNA, one can see the similarities in patterns making a definite link between
the two. I am applying my newly developed techniques
in bioinformatics to the phylogenetic analysis of the Potato Virus Y
population (PVY). On Recent Publications [1] Frederick SB Kibenge, Marcos G Godoy, Yingwei Wang, Molly JT Kibenge, Valentina Gherardelli, Soledad Mansilla, Angelica Lisperger, Miguel Jarpa, Geraldine Larroquete, Fernando Avendaño, Marcela Lara, and Alicia Gallardo. Infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) isolated from the ISA disease outbreaks in Chile diverged from ISAV isolates from Norway around 1996 and was disseminated around 2005, based on surface glycoprotein gene sequences. Virology Journal, 6:88, 2009. The first three co-authors are equal contributors. [2] Frederick S.B. Kibenge, Molly J.T. Kibenge, Yingwei Wang, Biao Qian, Shebel Hariharan and Sandi McGeachy. Mapping of putative virulence motifs on infectious salmon anaemia virus surface glycoprotein genes, Journal of General Virology, 88:3100-3111, 2007. [3] Yingwei Wang, Fred Kibenge, Lawrence Hale and Shiva Singh. Solving the Mystery: Genomic Signatures are Ergodic Markov Chain Properties. Submitted to BMC Bioinformatics, 2007. [4] Frederick S.B. Kibenge,
Molly J.T. Kibenge, Yingwei Wang, Biao Qian, Shebel Hariharan, and Sandi
McGeachy, Correlates of virulence of infectious salmon anaemia virus. OIE
Global Conference on Aquatic Animal Health, [5] Molly T.
Kibenge, Yingwei Wang, Biao Qian, Sandi McGeachy, Frederick Kibenge,
Virulence Phenotypes of Infectious Salmon Anaemia Virus (ISAV), 5th
International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health B ISAAH, San Francisco
Marriott, San Francisco, California, USA, September 2006 [6] Wang, Y., Hale,
L., Hill, K., Singh, S.: Mining invariants in biological sequences. In
Workshop Proceedings: Petra Perner (Ed.), Workshop on Data Mining in Life
Sciences, DMLS2006, IBaI CD-Report, ISSN 1617-2671, July 2006, p. 111-118. [7] Yingwei Wang, Kathleen Hill, Shiva Singh,
and Lila Kari. The spectrum of genomic signatures: from dinucleotides to
chaos game representation. GENE, 346:173-185, 2005. (Journal Impact
Factor: 2.778. Available online at ScienceDirect -
Gene - List of Issues) Teaching Winter 2012 CS322/BIO322 Introduction to Bioinformatics (moodle login) CS352 Operating Systems (moodle login) CS206/IT306 Advanced Web Development and Programming (moodle login) Fall 2011 IT121 Introduction to Computer Programming (moodle login) IT205 Web-based Application Development and Programming (moodle login) A dynamic learning environment
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