Jay Chow (Chi Lung)

Biography

Jay Chow (Chi Lung) is a Scientific Database Curator at EMBL-EBI. He is joining a focused initiative on fibrosis research in collaboration with the Saez-Rodriguez Group, EMBL-EBI Functional Genomics team and GSK. Here he is contributing to the thematic organization and retrieval of fibrosis relevant multi-omics datasets as well as the integration of datasets into the Expression Atlases, ArrayExpress collection in BioStudies, and Human Cell Atlas. He completed his MSc Bioinformatics degree in 2024 where his dissertation focused on benchmarking spatial deconvolution methods within the tumour microenvironment. He completed his BSc Biochemistry degree in 2022 where his dissertation focused on the validation of Alphafoldv2 predicted structures of bacterial ATP synthases. During this time, he also completed an internship at the University of Hong Kong helping the study of ultrafine bridge resolution during homologous recombination. At his current post at EMBL-EBI, he hopes to actively help support fibrosis research and therapeutic discovery.

Research Interests

It has been made clear with the explosion of data and data analysis techniques that often the largest impact in the quality of data analysis is the quality of input data. The rate of data collection far outpaces the development of techniques to sift through and organize the data, and I am interested in bridging this gap. By collecting, integrating, and harmonizing datasets from multiple omics platforms, we can increase the power and insights that can be gained from looking at the whole system rather than inspecting a single piece of the puzzle. As such, I aim to create curated fibrosis related resources to allow the further probing of the conserved mechanisms of fibrosis across diseases for downstream thearapeutic discovery.

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