Advancing medicine by solving
problems in genomics with data
science and machine learning.
Cell Genomics (2025)
Nature Genetics (2025)
Nature Commun. (2025)
Nature Genetics (2024)
Nature Genetics (2019)
AJHG (2018)
Nature (2017)
Highlights
May 2026: Dr. Liu, together with members of the lab, participated in the BOG2026 held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.May 2026: Sun Yanchi joins the lab as a research fellow. Welcome!Apr 2026: Qin Yixian passes her Qualifying Exam II.Feb 2026: Congratulations to Dr. Liu on receiving the Young Scientist Award 2025.Jan 2026: Arun joins the lab as PhD students and Jiao An joins the lab as a research fellow. Welcome!Oct 27, 2025: Our online platform LocusCompare2 was published on Nature Genetics!Oct 17, 2025: Professor Boxiang, together with members of the lab, participated in the ASHG 2025 Annual Meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts.Aug 2025: Wen Wen and Chang Lei join the lab as PhD students and Xue Liang join the lab as a research fellow. Welcome!Jul 18, 2025: Our e/sQTL study in human skeletal muscle tissues was published on Cell Genomics!May 14, 2025: Collaborative paper with Haky Im was published on Cell Genomics!Jan 25, 2025: Foozhan’s paper was published on Nature Communications!May 13, 2025: Human Cell Atlas Adipose Network roadmap paper was published on Nature Metabolism!Jan 2025: Chen Yang and Dian Meng joins the lab as PhD students!Dec 4, 2024: Our single-cell splicing QTL paper was published on Nature Genetics!Research Briefing by Nature Genetics.on the cover.
Nov 20, 2024: The Human Cell Atlas bundle was published on Nature.Dec 2024: Yihan, Yuntian, Tian Chi passed their Qualifying Exam II! Junbin and Yuhao passed their Qualifying Exam I!Dec 2024: Chao Li joins the lab as a research fellow. Welcome Chao!2024/08: Tan Zhi Yang joins the lab as a research fellow. Welcome Zhi Yang!2024/08: Yixian Qin joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Yixian!2024/07: Liu Lab attends Single Cell Congress Asia. Yihan and Boxiang (invited speaker) presented recent research.2024/06: Boxiang was invited to speak at the 2nd International Symposium on Genomics and Translational Medicine in Xi’an, China.2024/06: Boxiang was invited to speak at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.2024/05: Liu Lab presented at Biology of Genomes in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, USA.2024/05: Cao Yuan, Liu Fei and Wang Wenjing pass their qualifying exam 1.2024/05: Yihan and Wenjing’s SG100k proposal was selected as one of eight flagship projects (12.5% selection rate).2024/02: MOE T2 Grant (T2EP30123-0026; $1.3M) awarded to Liu Lab (PI).2024/01: Yuntian, Yihan and Chi pass their qualifying exam 1.2024/01: Junbin Gao (MS in Computer Science) joins the lab as a PhD student.2024/01: Yuhao Dong (MS in Neurobiology) joins the lab as a PhD student.2023/12: Chang Xu (PhD in Biomedical Engineering) wins Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship!2023/11: Boxiang was invited to speak at the Human Cell Atlas (Asia) meeting in Kolkata, India.2024/11: Yuntian was invited to speak at the International Congress of Immunology, South Africa.Oct 14, 2023: The RESET Consortium paper was published on the European Heart Journal!2023/10: Yan Liang (PhD in Epidemiology and Health Statistics) joins the lab as a Research Fellow.2023/09: Zixian Zhao (PhD in Basic Medicine) joins the lab as a Research Fellow.2023/08: Hao Wu (PhD in Bioinformatics) joins the lab as a Research Fellow.2023/07: Yuan Cao (MS in Computer Science) joins the lab as a PhD student.2023/07: Fei Liu (MS in Drug Design) joins the lab as a PhD student.2023/07: Wenjing Wang (MS in Bioinformatics) joins the lab as a PhD student.2023/07: MOE T1 Grant ($250k) awarded to Liu Lab (PI).2023/07: Our group presented at the Human Cell Atlas general meeting in Toronto.2023/05: Liu Lab presented at Biology of Genomes in Cold Spring Harbor.2023/04: Collaborative paper with Huang Liang published on Nature!News coverage by Nature editorial.
2023/03: Boxiang was invited to speak at Singleron Technology on single-cell QTL.2023/02: Collaborative paper with Thomas Quertermous has been published on Nature Communications!2023/01: Boxiang was invited to speak at Microsoft Research Asia on AI in genomics.2023/01: Wenjing Wang joins the lab as a MPhil student. Welcome Wenjing!2022/12: Yuntian Zhang joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Yuntian!2022/12: Yihan Tong joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Yihan!2022/11: Boxiang Liu presents at Human Cell Atlas - Asia (AIDA workshop) (Group photo)2022/08: Chi Tian joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Chi!2022/07: Lab opens at the National University of Singapore!2022/05: Collaborative paper with Yunpeng Huang published on Nature Communications!2022/01: Review paper on spatial transcriptomics analysis publised on Frontiers in Genetics!2021/12: Congratulations Sizhen Li for getting her LinearTurboFold paper accepted at PNAS!2021/09: ParaMed for English-Chinese translation in the biomedical domain published on BMC Medical Informatics!2020/12: LinearDesign and its application in COVID-19 vaccine design wins “AI for Good” prize by AIconics!2020/11: ParaMed accepted at NeurIPS Machine Learning for Health workshop!2020/10: The CoV-Seq webserver for COVID-19 sequence analysis published on JMIR.2020/10: Congratulations to Ryan Corces for getting his single-cell epigenomic analysis for neurodegenerative diseases published on Nature Genetics!2020/06: Congratulations to Quanyi Zhao for getting his TCF21 multi-omics QTL paper published on Genome Biology!2020/05: LinearDesign algorithm for mRNA sequence design preprint online. Congratulations He Zhang!2020/05: Congratulations to Alvaro Barbeira for getting his GTEx for complex diseases paper published on Genome Biology!2020/01: Imputation of single-cell gene expression data published on Quantitative Biology!2019/11: Congratulations to Bruna for getting her analysis on age-dependent genetic regulation of gene expression published on Genome Biology!2019/07: Review paper on functional genomics using specialized cell type published on Human Genetics!2019/07: Congratulations to Robert Wirka for getting his single-cell analysis on TCF21 published on Nature Medicine!2019/05: LocusCompare paper published on Nature Genetics!LocusCompare website.
2019/05: RPE cell eQTL paper published on Communications Biology!2018/09: Smooth muscle cell eQTL paper published on American Journal of Human Genetics!2018/07: R package to approximate independent non-identical binomial random variables published on the R Journal!2018/03: Leptomeningeal metastases paper published on Journal of Thoracic Oncology!2017/12: Multi-modal deep learning architecture for yeast gene expression prediction published in NeurIPS Machine Learning in Computational Biology Workshop!2017/10: GTEx paper published on Nature!The GTEx article collection.Coverage by Nature News.