Preface

The Fast Track for Microbiome Research

Dr. Yigang Tong used to work in the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and is now a professor in the College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. Dr. Tong received his Bachelor’s degree in genetics at Fudan University, and his PhD degree at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, China. He was trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada during 2003–2005. Dr. Tong is mainly engaged in microbial high-throughput sequencing, microbial genomics, bioinformatics, antibiotics resistance, and bacteriophages. He has published more than 160 SCI papers in journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, Lancet Infectious Diseases, and Journal of Virology. He serves as an editorial board member of the journal Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics.

Kang Ning, Professor, PI of Microbial Bioinformatics Group, Director of Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his BS degree in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China, and PhD in Bioinformatics from National University of Singapore. He had his postdoc training in Bioinformatics from University of Michigan. Dr Ning has more than 10 years of experiences in bioinformatics for omics big-data integration, microbiome analyses, and single-cell analyses. His current research interests include method and algorithm development for genomics, metagenomics, single-cell omics, and proteomics. He is also interested in synthetic biology and high-performance-computation. He has authored over 60 papers and reviews on leading journals including Gut, Nucleic Acids Research, and Bioinformatics, which have more than 1500 citations. He has been the committee members of several national bioinformatics and biology big-data committees in China, and served as reviewers for several international funding agencies including UK-BBSRC and UK-NERC. He serves as an editorial board member of Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics.