Mingwu Zhang

My research interests include: Database support for scientific and biological databases, specifically tracing and managing lineage information; Data mining techniques for biological data; Data uncertainty and reliability; Bioinformatics: algorithms for processing LC-MS and LC-MS-MS data; visualization of scientific data.

 Advisor: Professor Sunil Prabhakar

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Education

Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

University of Science and Technology of China

Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China

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Refereed Conferences and Workshops

• Mingwu Zhang, Wei Jiang, Chris Clifton and Sunil Prabhakar, "Identifying Rare Classes with Sparse Training Data", 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA07). Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7 2007.
   
• Mingwu Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiang Zhang and Sunil Prabhakar "Tracing Lineage Beyond Relational Operators", 33^rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB).     To appear.
   
• Mingwu Zhang, Daisuke Kihara and Sunil Prabhakar "Tracing Lineage in Multi-version Scientific Databases", 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering  (BIBE) . To appear.

• Mingwu Zhang, Qi Ouyang, Alan Stephenson, Michael D Kane, David E Salt, Sunil Prabhakar, Charles Buck, Xiang Zhang "Interactive Analysis of ‘Omics Molecular Expression Data", 55th Annual ASMS  Poster, Indianapolis, June 3 - 7, 2007
   

Technical Reports

• Mingwu Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, Sunil Prabhakar, "Cost Effective Forward Data Lineage Tracing." Technical report, Computer Sciences, Purdue University.

Journal Articles

• Cheng X, Qian Y, Li BX, Zhang M and Liu J, "Puification, characterization, and cDNA cloning of a new fibrinogenlytic venom protein, Agkisacutacin, from Agkistrodon acutus venom.''
  Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999 Nov 19;265(2):530-5.

Under review

• Mingwu Zhang,  Qi Ouyang, Alan Stephenson, Michael D Kane, David E Salt, Sunil Prabhakar, Charles Buck, Xiang Zhang "Interactive Analysis of ‘Omics Molecular Expression Data". Submitted to BMC System Biology.