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Julio Ng

Graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics PhD. Program
Bioinformatics Program
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0412

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Interests

I am currently a third year Bioinformatics student at UCSD. I am a member of the Pevzner's Lab. My main area of reasearch is on the computational aspect of protein mass spectrometry. Particularly, I am interested in algorithms for identification of fusion and cyclic peptides.

Current Projects

I am implementing a modified version of InsPect that can identify fusion peptides
I am also working with Nuno Bandeira on algorithms to identify cyclic peptide mass spectra.

Software

MS-CPA: A program to annotate cyclic peptides.

Previous Publications

Dereplication and De Novo Sequencing of Nonribosomal Peptides. Julio Ng, Nuno Bandeira, Wei-Ting Liu, Majid Ghassemian, Thomas Simmons, William Gerwick, Roger Linington, Pieter Dorrestein, and Pavel Pevzner, 2009. Nature Methods. Accepted.
Interpretation of Tandem Mass Spectra Obtained from Cyclic Nonribosomal Peptides. Wei-Ting Liu, Julio Ng, Dario Meluzzi, Nuno Bandeira, Marcelino Gutierrez, Thomas Simmons, Andrew Schultz, Roger Linington, Bradley Moore, William Gerwick, Pavel Pevzner, and Pieter Dorrestein, 2009. Anal. Chem 81(11):4200-4209.
De Novo Sequencing of Nonribosomal Peptides. Nuno Bandeira, Julio Ng, Dario Meluzzi, Roger Linington, Pieter Dorrestein, and Pavel Pevzner, 2008. RECOMB 2008.
Algorithm for Identification of Fusion Proteins via Mass Spectrometry. Julio Ng and Pavel Pevzner, 2008. Journal of Proteome Research 7(01):89-95.
Improving gene annotation using peptide mass spectrometry. Stephen Tanner, Pavel A. Pevzner, Liliana Florea, Steve Briggs, Zhouxin Chen, Julio Ng, Roderic Guigo, and Vineet Bafna, 2007. Genome Research 17(2):231-239.

Working Experience

I worked for Apple Inc. as an intern during the Summer 2005 and Summer 2006. I was part of the Architecture and Performance Group (APG).

Teaching Assistance

BENG 202

CSE 182

CSE 30 (2002-2005)