Wei Tong, Ph.D.
Assistant professor of bioinformatics

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bioinformatics, Plant systems biology
EDUCATION
09/1996 ? 07/2000 B.S., Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science, Central China Normal University (CCNU), Wuhan, China
09/1996 ? 07/2000 B.S., Computer Software & Application, Department of Information Technology, CCNU, Wuhan, China
09/2005 ? 01/2013 Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Systems Biology field), Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
Dissertation: Integrative Analysis of Metabolic Network Modeling and Proteome in Thermophile
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
09/2000 ? 01/2002 Research Assistant and Team Leader, Data Processing, Bioinformatics Department, Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), CAS, Beijing, China. Mainly involved in data processing, genome assembly and annotation, and took part in the Human Genome Project, and Rice Genome Project.
02/2002 ? 03/2003 Group Leader, Comparative Genomics, Bioinformatics Department, BGI, CAS, Beijing, China. Mainly involved in comparative genomics for rice subspecies, pig ESTs analysis.
03/2003 ? 10/2004 System Analyst, Software Environment, Bioinformatics Department, BGI, CAS, Beijing, China. Mainly involved in the construction and management of bioinformatics software environment; SARS genomes assembly and analysis; the rice complete genome project; protein analysis in silicon.
11/2004 ? 08/2005 Group Leader, Proteome Bioinformatics Group, Proteomics Department, BGI, CAS, Beijing, China. Mainly involved in the construction of the proteome bioinformatics platform, processing of mass spectrometry data, and data analysis in the Human Liver Proteomics Project.
05/2013 ? current Assistant professor, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University
Current research: comparative genomics among wheat, Brachypodium distachyon and rice etc.; systems biology of plant development and resistance.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. Tong W, Chen Z, Cao Z, Wang Q, Zhang J, et al. (2013) Robustness Analysis of Constraint-Based Metabolic Model Links Cell Growth and Proteomics of Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis under Temperature Perturbation. Mol. BioSyst. 9 (4): 713-722
2. Wang Z#, Tong W#, Wang Q, Bai X, Chen Z, et al. (2012) The Temperature Dependent Proteomic Analysis of Thermotoga maritima. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46463. doi:10.1371 (#equal contribution)
3. Tong W. (2010) Chapter 8 Proteome Bioinformatics. Cardiovascular Proteomics, Ed. Qiu J., People’s Medical Publishing House.
4. Wang YA, Peng FL, Tong W, Sun HD, Xu NZ, et al. (2010) The Nitrated Proteome in Heart Mitochondria of the db/db Mouse Model: Characterization of Nitrated Tyrosine Residues in SCOT. Journal of Proteome Research 9: 4254-4263.
5. Qian Z, Wang QH, Tong W, Zhou CQ, Wang QA, et al. (2010) Regulation of Galactose Metabolism through the HisK:GalR Two-Component System in Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis. Journal of Bacteriology 192: 4311-4316.
6. Chinese Human Liver Proteome Profiling Consortium (Jiang Y, ..., Tong W, ..., He F). (2010) First insight into the human liver proteome from PROTEOME(SKY)-LIVER(Hu) 1.0, a publicly available database. J Proteome Res. 9: 79-94.
7. Tu SY, Ren Y, Tong W, Zheng SR, Xu NZ, et al. (2009) A new approach to monitor expression of aldo-keto reductase proteins in mouse tissues. Proteomics 9: 5090-5100.
8. Yu J, Wang J, Lin W, …, Tong W, …, Yang H. (2005) The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A history of duplications. Plos Biology 3: 266-281.
9. Tong W. (2004) Analyzing the biology on the system level. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2: 6-14.
10. Wong GKS, Liu B, Wang J, …, Tong W, …, Yang H. (2004) A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Nature 432: 717-722.
11. Yu J, Hu SN, Wang J, …, Tong W, …, Yang H. (2002) A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp indica). Science 296: 79-92.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Plant Science, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University
3 Taicheng Rd, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, 712100
Email: tongw~at~nwsuaf.edu.cn (replacing ~at~ with @)