Research Assistant · The University of Hong Kong
From genomes
to biological insight.
I work across bioinformatics, population genomics and genetics, building tools to connect genomic variation with biological meaning. I’m now exploring AI for biology and agentic scientific systems.
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01 / Research
My work has grown from studying variation in crop genomes to developing the methods and software that make it interpretable.
Large-scale variant discovery, population structure, haplotype analysis and trait mapping. In wheat, my work has included the Watkins landrace collection, LD-based haplotype workflows, TagSNP design, and NAM imputation and GWAS.
Connecting genetic variation to traits in wheat and pea. My pea research has included haplotype analyses of Mendel’s classical traits and the integration of transcriptome, methylation and RT-PCR evidence.
I’m interested in how AI can support biological research, and how agentic systems might connect scientific literature, analysis tools and computational workflows. This is the next direction I’m exploring from a grounding in genomics and scientific software.
02 / Publications
23 April 2025 · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08891-6
Mendel Pea G2P resource632, 823–831 · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07682-9
Watkins & Worldwide Wheat G2B13, 927407 · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.927407
Source codeAmber N. Hafeez, Laetitia Chartrain, Cong Feng, et al.
Petros P. Sigalas, Peter R. Shewry, Andrew Riche, Luzie Wingen, Cong Feng, et al.
Tom O’Hara et al. · Co-author: Cong Feng.
Djivan Prentout, Olga Razumova, Bénédicte Rhoné, Hélène Badouin, Hélène Henri, Cong Feng, Jos Käfer, Gennady Karlov and Gabriel A. B. Marais.
03 / Software & resources
Tools, analysis workflows and shared resources for biological research.
A tool I authored and maintained for population haplotype analysis and visualization in editable Excel tables, bringing haplotype data into a format researchers can inspect and work with.
| Sample | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | A | A | G | G | C | T | T | A |
| B | A | A | G | G | C | T | T | A |
| C | G | G | A | A | C | T | T | A |
| D | G | G | A | A | T | C | C | G |
| E | A | A | G | G | T | C | C | G |
| F | G | G | A | A | T | C | C | G |
Methods & tools
Variant discovery and quality control, LD-based haplotype matrices, NAM imputation and NAM-GWAS, and interactive Manhattan-plot visualization.
Working toolkit Python · C / C++ · R · MySQL · HTML · Java
Research platform
I developed the Global Grain Genomics Research Program portal as part of my work on shared resources for crop genomics.
Collaborative research resources
Related to my wheat and pea research; I contributed to these data portals.
Website creation: Zejian Huang.
04 / Career & education
Late Jan 2026 — present Current
Research Assistant
Continuing my research path in computational biology, with an emerging interest in AI-enabled biology and agentic scientific systems.
Chongqing Medical University
A foundation in genetics, statistics, mathematics and genomics, alongside self-directed programming study.
BGI Group · Shenzhen
De novo genome assembly for Lycium ruthenicum and L. barbarum, and pipeline development for cysteine-rich peptide analysis.
Agricultural Genomics Institute,
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Shenzhen
Population genomic research in wheat and pea, gene discovery, bioinformatics tools, analytical workflows and research websites.
Get in touch
On genomics, scientific software, or the next questions in AI for biology.
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