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 Dr. Xiangjia "Jack" Min
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology and Microbiology
330-941-1945
xmin AT ysu DOT edu
WBSH 3012
Website: http://proteomics.ysu.edu/people/min.html
Ph.D. University of Hawaii, 1995
Research Interests
Bioinformatics (Computational biology) including DNA and protein sequence analysis, gene and genome annotation, molecular evolution, development of bioinformatics tools and databases. He also has interests in plant physiology and genomics.
Selected Publications
Wang, J, Na J-K, Yu Q, Gschwend AR, Han J, Zeng F, Aryal R, VanBuren R, Murray JE, Zhang W, Navajas-Pérez R, Feltus FA, Lemke C, Tong EJ, Chen C, Wai CM, Singh R, Wang ML, Min XJ, Alam M, Charlesworth D, Moore PH, Jiang J, Paterson AH, Ming R. (2012) Sequencing papaya X and Yh chromosomes reveals molecular basis of incipient sex chromosome evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) doi:10.1073/pnas.1207833109 (cover story).
Lum G, Min XJ. (2011) Plant secretomes: current status and future perspectives. Plant Omics Journal. 4(2):114-119.
Lum G, Min XJ. (2011) FunSecKB: the Fungal Secretome KnowledgeBase. Database - the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. Vol. 2011. doi: 10.1093/database/bar001.
Sablok* G, Gupta PK, Baek JM, Vazquez F, Min* XJ. (2011) Genome-wide survey of alternative splicing in the grass Brachypodium distachyon: an emerging model biosystem for plant functional genomics. Biotechnology Letters. 33:629-636. doi: 10.1007/s10529-010-0475-6. (*contributed equally to the work)
Min XJ. (2010) Evaluation of computational methods for secreted protein prediction in different eukayrotes. J Proteomics Bioinfor 3:143-147.
Min XJ, Butler G, Storms R, Tsang A. (2009) Comparative assessment of DNA assemblers for assembling expressed sequence tags. 2009 Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics. Cleveland, Ohio. The IEEE Computer Society. pp79-82.
Albu* M, Min* XJ, Golding B, Hickey D. (2009) Nucleotide substitution bias within the genus Drosophila affects the pattern of proteome evolution. Genome Biol. Evol. 1:288-293. (*contributed equally to the work)
Albu M, Min XJ, Hickey D, Golding B. (2008) Uncorrected nucleotide bias in mtDNA can mimic the effects of positive Darwinian selection. Mol Biol Evol. 25:2521-2524.
Min XJ, Hickey DA. (2008) An evolutionary footprint of age-related natural selection in mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 67:412-417.
Min XJ, Hickey DA. (2007) Assessing the effect of varying sequence length on DNA barcoding of fungi. Mol Ecology Notes. 7 365-373.
Min XJ, Hickey DA. (2007) DNA asymmetric strand bias affects the amino acid composition of mitochondrial proteins. DNA Research. 14:201-206.
Min XJ, Hickey DA. (2007) DNA barcodes provide a quick preview of mitochondrial genome composition. PlosOne. 2(3):e325.
Semova N, Storms R, John T, Gaudet P, Ulycznyj P, Min XJ, Sun J, Butler G, Tsang A. (2006) Generation, analysis and annotation of an extensive Aspergillus niger EST collection. BMC Microbilogy 6:7.
O'Toole N, Min XJ, Storms R, Butler G, Tsang A. (2006) Sequence-based analysis of fungal secretomes. Applied Mycology and Biotechnology: Bioinformatics. Volume 6. pp277-296.
Zhang P, Min XJ. (2005) EST Data Mining and Applications in Fungal Genomics. Applied Mycology and Biotechnology: Gene and Genomics. Volume 5. pp.33-70.
Min XJ, Butler G, Storms R, Tsang A. (2005) OrfPredictor: predicting protein-coding regions in EST-derived sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 33 W677-W680.
Min X, Okada K, Brockmann B, Koshiba T, Kamiya Y. (2000) Molecular cloning and expression patterns of three functional aldehyde oxidase genes and isolation of two aldehyde oxidase pseudogenes in tomato. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1493 337-341.
Min X, Siddiqi MY, Guy RD, Glass ADM, Kronzucker HJ. (1998) Induction of nitrate uptake and nitrate reductase activity in trembling aspen and lodgepole pine. Plant, Cell Environment. 2 1039-1046.
Min X, Bartholomew DP. (1996) Effect of plant growth regulators on ethylene production, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase activity, and initiation of inflorescence development of pineapple. J. Plant Growth Regulation. 15:121-128. |
