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Xingdong Bian

Research Software Engineer

Davey Group

Biography.

Contact details:

  • +44 (0) 1603 450 216

xingdong.bian@earlham.ac.uk

Xingdong joined the Earlham Institute in January 2010 and was involved in the development of EI's Laboratory Information Management System (MISO) and the TGAC Genomic Browser. He also worked on data visualisation, managing servers, genomic databases and bioinformatics tools.

Xingdong is now a Research Software Engineer for developing Grassroots Infrastructure (link: http://grassroots.tools) which contributes to Wheat Information System for wheat researches.

Projects.

Green fields of wheat

Grassroots Genomics

Publications.

Jun 2019

Thanki A., Bian X., Davey R.

TGAC Browser: an open-source genome browser for non-model organisms

bioRxiv

Publishers version: doi:10.1101/677658

Jun 2016

Wilkinson P. A., Winfield M. O., Barker G. L., Tyrrell S., Bian X., Allen A. M., Burridge A., Coghill J. A., Waterfall C., Caccamo M., Davey R. P., Edwards K. J.

CerealsDB 3.0: expansion of resources and data integration.

BMC Bioinformatics

Publishers version: doi:10.1186/s12859-016-1139-x

Jan 2020

Wilkinson PA,Allen AM,Tyrrell S,Wingen LU,Bian X,Winfield MO,Burridge A,Shaw DS,Zaucha J,Griffiths S,Davey RP,Edwards KJ,Barker GLA

CerealsDB-new tools for the analysis of the wheat genome: update 2020.

Database : the journal of biological databases and curation

Publishers version: doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baaa060

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