Qiaoping Yuan, Ph.D., who joined LNG in 2005, is a bioinformatics and analytical IT tools resource for all members of LNG.  He is in the DNA/Data Core where he leads genome informatics including creating analytic frameworks and pathways for the next-gen sequencer data.  He is involved in all LNG genomics projects (e.g. sequence variation discovery, whole genome association, expression profiling, epigenome and mutaome analysis), both at the front end of designing arrays and planning analyses and at the analytical phases.