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Selected publications(*equal contribution, ^#corresponding)

The High-dimensional Space of Human Diseases Built from Diagnosis Records and Mapped to Genetic Loci.
G Jia*, Y Li*, X Zhong, K Wang, M Pividori, R Alomairy, A Esposito, H Ltaief, C Terao, M Akiyama , K Matsuda, D Keyes, H Im, T Gojobori, Y Kamatani, M Kubo, N Cox, X Gao^#, A Rzhetsky^#. Nature Computational Science, 2023. [Full text]


Deep autoencoder for interpretable tissue-adaptive deconvolution and cell-type-specific gene analysis.
Y Chen*, Y Wang*, Y Chen, Y Cheng, Y Wei, Y Li, J Wang, Y Wei, TF Chan^#, Y Li^#. Nature Communications, 2022. [Full text]


HMD-ARG: hierarchical multi-task deep learning for annotating antibiotic resistance genes.
Y Li*, Z Xu*, W Han*, H Cao, R Umarov, A Yan, M Fan, H Chen, L Li, P Ho, X Gao. Microbiome, 2021.

RNA Secondary Structure Prediction By Learning Unrolled Algorithms.
X Chen*, Y Li*, R Umarov, X Gao, L Song. Eighth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-20),
Oral (Accpetance rate=48/2599=1.85%)
[GaTech news] [Chinese news] [Chinese introduction] [Plain explanation]

DeepSimulator1.5: a more powerful, quicker and lighter simulator for Nanopore sequencing.
Y Li*, S Wang*, C Bi, Z Qiu, M Li, X Gao. Bioinformatics, 2020. [Code] [PDF]

A deep learning framework to predict binding preference of RNA constituents on protein surface.
J Lam*, Y Li*, L Zhu, R Umarov, H Jiang, A Heliou, F Sheong, T Liu, Y Long, Y Li, L Fang, R Altman, W Chen, X Huang, X Gao. Nature Communications, 2019.
[KAUST news] [Chinese introduction] [PDF] [Code] [Server]

Estimating heritability and genetic correlations from large health datasets in the absence of genetic data.
G Jia, Y Li, H Zhang, I Chattopadhyay, A Jensen, D Blair, L Davis, P Robinson, T Dahlén, S Brunak, M Benson, G Edgren, N Cox, X Gao, A Rzhetsky. Nature Communications, 2019. [PDF]
[UChicago news] [Chinese introduction]

Two symmetric Arginine residues play distinct roles in Thermus thermophilus Argonaute DNA guide strand-mediated DNA target cleavage.
J Lei, G Sheng, P Cheung, S Wang, Y Li, X Gao, Y Zhang, Y Wang, X Huang. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 2019.

Deep learning in bioinformatics: introduction, application, and perspective in big data era.
Y Li, C Huang, L Ding, Z Li, Y Pan, X Gao. Methods, 2019. [PDF] [Code]
Cover article of the Methods issue: Deep Learning in Bioinformatics
Highly cited paper

DeepSimulator: a deep simulator for nanopore sequencing.
Y Li, R Han, C Bi, M Li, S Wang, X Gao. Bioinformatics, 2018. [PDF] [Code]

DLBI: Deep learning guided Bayesian inference for structure reconstruction of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.
Y Li, F Xu, F Zhang, P Xu, M Fan, L Li, X Gao, R Han. Bioinformatics, 2018. [PDF] [Code]

DEEPre: sequence-based enzyme EC number prediction by deep learning.
Y Li, S Wang, R Umarov, B Xie, M Fan, L Li, X Gao. Bioinformatics, 2017. [PDF] [Server]