国际影响力
研究成果发表于Genome Biology、Microbiome、Genome Research、Bioinformatics等国际期刊;开发VirStrain、StrainScan、GDmicro等生物信息工具,相关软件累计下载超过30,000次。
所获荣誉
MIT–Novo Nordisk人工智能博士后项目(2024);香港特别行政区政府Talent Development Scholarship(2023);香港城市大学Research Tuition Scholarship(2022);第八届香港大学生创新及创业大赛二等奖(2022)。
科研成果
围绕微生物菌株水平分析、微生物基因组与微生物组计算方法开展研究,代表性工作包括VirStrain(Genome Biology)、StrainScan(Microbiome)和GDmicro(Bioinformatics)等。相关研究重点推动高分辨率微生物识别、复杂微生物数据分析及生物信息软件工具开发。
代表性文章
(1) Herui Liao; Dehan Cai; Yanni Sun; VirStrain: a strain identification tool for RNA viruses, Genome Biology, 2022, 23(1): 1-28
(2) Herui Liao; Yongxin Ji; Yanni Sun; High-resolution strain-level microbiome composition analysis from short reads, Microbiome, 2023, 11(1): 1-24
(3) Herui Liao; Arolyn Conwill; Ian Light-Maka; Martin Fenk; Alyssa H. Mitchell; Evan B. Qu; Paul Torrillo; Jacob S. Baker; Felix M. Key; Tami D. Lieberman; High-accuracy SNV calling for bacterial isolates using deep learning with AccuSNV, Genome Research, 2026.
(4) Herui Liao; Jiayu Shang; Yanni Sun; GDmicro: classifying host disease status with GCN and Deep adaptation network based on the human gut microbiome data, Bioinformatics, 2023, 39(12): 1- 11
(5) Herui Liao; Yanni Sun; Shujun Ou; Accelerating de novo SINE annotation in plant and animal genomes, Mobile DNA, 2024, 15(1): 1-7
(6) Lu Zhang†; Xiaodong Fang†; Herui Liao†; Zhenmiao Zhang; Xin Zhou; Lijuan Han; Yang Chen; Qinwei Qiu; Shuai Cheng Li; A comprehensive investigation of metagenome assembly by linked-read sequencing, Microbiome, 2020, 8(1): 1-11. (†:共同第一作者)
(7) Haiying Ma†; Herui Liao†; Walter Dellisanti; Yanni Sun; Leo Lai Chan; Liang Zhang; Characterizing the Host Coral Proteome of Platygyra carnosa Using Suspension Trapping (S-Trap), Journal of Proteome Research, 2021, 20(3): 1783-1791. (†:共同第一作者)