Bio

Lin Yang is an associate computational biologist in Shirley Liu’s lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His research focuses on developing novel bioinformatics methodology and pipeline for next-generation sequencing data analysis. He has some experience in developing a novel tool in the Single-Cell CRISPER data analysis before moving to the Boston area. Currently, he is working on RNA-Seq analysis pipelines in snakemake workflow language on the high-performance cluster and cloud platforms at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Education

The George Washington University | Washington, DC

MS in Bioinformatics | September 2018 - August 2020

China Agricultural University | BJ, China B.S. in Biological Science | September 2013 - June 2017

Experience

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Associate Computational Biologist | August 2020 - Present

Children’s National Medical Center | Research Assistant | Jun 2019 - May 2020

Publication

scMAGeCK links genotypes with multiple phenotypes in single-cell CRISPR screens | https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-020-1928-4 | Jan 2020

CRISPR Screening “Big Data” Informs Novel Therapeutic Solutions | https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/crispr.2019.29062.sch | Jun 2019