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Dr. LI Shuaicheng (李帥成博士)

BSc MSc NUS, PhD U of Waterloo

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Office: G6520 YEUNG
Phone: 34429412
Fax: 34420503
Email: shuaicli@cityu.edu.hk
Web: Personal Homepage

Research Interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Machine Learning
  • Algorithms


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Journal

  • Li, Shuai Cheng. , Bu, Dongbo. , Xu, Jinbo. & Li, Ming. (in press). Finding Nearly Optimal GDT Scores. Journal of Computational Biology (JCB).
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. , Bu, Dongbo. & Li, Ming. (in press). Hexagon codes accurate information for side chain conformation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IEEE TCBB).
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. & Ng, Yen Kaow. (2011). On Protein Structure Alignment under Distance Constraint. Theoretical Computer Science (TCS): Special Issue for ISAAC 2009. Vol. 412, No. 32. 4187 - 4199.
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. & Ng, Yen Kaow. (2010). Calibur: a tool for clustering large numbers of protein decoys. BMC Bioinformatics (BMCBI). vol. 11, No.25.
  • Zhao, Yuzhong. , Alipanahi, Babak. , Li, Shuai Cheng. & Li, Ming. (2010). Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using NMR Chemical Shift Data. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB). Vol. 8, No. 5. 867 - 884.
  • Bu, Dongbo. , Li, Ming. , Li, Shuai Cheng. , Qian, Jianbo. & Xu, Jinbo. (2009). Finding compact structural motifs. Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). Vol. 410, No. 30-32. 2834 - 2839.
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. & Li, Ming. (2009). On Two Open Problems in 2-interval Patterns. Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). Vol. 410, No. 24-25. 2410 - 2423.
  • Gao, Xin. , Xu, Jinbo. , Li, Shuai Cheng. & Li, Ming. (2009). Predicting local quality of a sequence-structure alignment. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB). Vol. 7, No. 5. 789 - 810.
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. , Ng, Yen Kaow. & Zhang, Louxin. (2008). A PTAS for the k-Consensus Structures Problem Under Euclidean Squared Distance. Algorithms. Vol. 1, No. 2. 43 - 51.
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. , Bu, Dongbo. , Gao, Xin. , Xu, Jinbo. & Li, Ming. (2008). Designing succinct structural alphabets. Bioinformatics: Special Issue for ISMB 2008. Vol. 24, No. 13. 182 - 189.
  • Zhao, Feng. , Li, Shuai Cheng. , Sterner, Beckett W. & Xu, Jinbo. (2008). Discriminative Learning for Protein Conformation Sampling. PROTEINS: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics. Vol. 73, No. 1. 228 - 240.
  • Cao, Xia. , Li, Shuai Cheng. , Ooi, Beng Chin. & Tung, Anthony K. H. (2004). Piers: An Efficient Model for Similarity Search in DNA Sequence Databases. SIGMOD Record. Vol. 33, No. 2. 39 - 44.

Conference Paper

  • Kirkpatrick, Bonnie. , Li, Shuai Cheng. , Karp, Richard M. & Halperin, Eran. (2011). Pedigree Reconstruction using Identity by Descent. Research in Computational Molecular Biology - 15th Annual International Conference (RECOMB 2011).
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. , Bu, Dongbo. , Xu, Jinbo. & Li, Ming. (2008). Finding Largest Well-Predicted Subset of Protein Structure Models. Combinatorial Pattern Matching, 19th Annual Symposium (CPM 2008).
  • Qian, Jianbo. , Li, Shuai Cheng. , Bu, Dongbo. , Li, Ming. & Xu, Jinbo. (2007). Finding Compact Structural Motifs. Combinatorial Pattern Matching, 18th Annual Symposium (CPM 2007).
  • Gao, Xin. , Bu, Dongbo. , Li, Shuai Cheng. , Xu, Jinbo. & Li, Ming. (2007). FragQA: predicting local fragment quality of a sequence-structure alignment (Best Paper Award). The 18th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2007).
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. (2006). Faster Algorithms for Finding Missing Patterns. Theory of Computing 2006, Proceedings of the Twelfth Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS 2006).
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. & Li, Ming. (2006). On the Complexity of the Crossing Contact Map Pattern Matching Problem. Algorithms in Bioinformatics, 6th International Workshop (WABI 2006).
  • Cao, Xia. , Li, Shuai Cheng. & Tung, Anthony K. H. (2005). Indexing DNA Sequences Using q-Grams (Best Paper Award). Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 10th International Conference (DASFAA 2005).
  • Li, Shuai Cheng. , Leong, Hon Wai. & Quek, Steven K. (2004). New Approximation Algorithms for Some Dynamic Storage Allocation Problems. Computing and Combinatorics, 10th Annual International Conference (COCOON 2004).
  • Cao, Xin. , Li, Shuai Cheng. , Ooi, Beng Chin. & Tung, Anthony K.H. (2004). String Join Using Precedence Count Matrix. The 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2004).

Book Chapter

  • Bu, Dongbo. , Li, Shuai Cheng. , Gao, Xin. , Yu, Libo. , Xu, Jinbo. & Li, Ming. (2007). Consensus Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction. Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Edited by Yan-Qing Zhang and Jagath C. Rajapakse, John Wiley & Sons. 978-0-4701-1662-3.

Computer Software or System

  • Li, Shuai Cheng. , Bu, Dongbo. , Xu, Jinbo. & Li, Ming. (2008). Fragment-HMM: A New Approach To Protein Structure Prediction. Protein Science, Vol. 17, No. 11, pages 1925-1934.


Research Awards

  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2011)
    Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
    (Held at International Computer Science Institute, U Berkeley)
  • Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies Award (2010)
    University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Cheriton Scholarship, University of Waterloo (2006 - 2009)
    University of Waterloo, Canada
  • International Student Scholarship, University of Waterloo (2004 - 2007)
    University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Best Paper Award (2007)
    The 18th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2007)
  • Entrance Scholarship, University of Waterloo (2004 - 2005)
    University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Best Paper Award (2005)
    10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2005)
  • Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore (2001 - 2002)
    National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • First Runner-up, Algorithmic Programming Contest (2002)
    NUS-MIT Alliance Course on Algorithms (a course jointly conducted by NUS and MIT)
  • Dean's list, School of Computing, NUS (1997 - 1998)
    National University of Singapore, Singapore


Selected Research Projects

  • FALCON is a software system for protein structure prediction. It ranked among the top 3 protein structure prediction systems on hard targets in CASP8 (Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction 8, http://robetta.bakerlab.org/CASP8_eval_domains/CASP8.FR_H.First-GDT_MM.html.) The system uses a simple position-specific hidden Markov model to predict protein structures. The new framework naturally repeats itself to converge to a final target, conglomerating fragment assembly, clustering, target selection, refinement, and consensus, all in one process. Our initial implementation of this system converged to within 6 Angstrom of the native structures for 100% decoys on all 6 standard benchmark proteins used to evaluate the state-of-the-art system called ROSETTA, which achieved only 14% to 94% on the same data. The qualities of the best decoys and the final decoys our system converged to were also notably better. Recently, we completed an automatic system for determining protein structures from NMR spectra. It usually takes well trained experts several months of experimentations to infer a structure from NMR data manually. Our system, AMR, completely automates this process, and reduces the time needed to infer high resolution structures from several months to one day. The system works in a three parts pipeline: peak picking, chemical shift assignment and structure generation. My work was on the structure generation part, which is an extension of FALCON to work with partial NMR constraints: to accept chemical shift information, tolerate errors and refine structures. Initial results show that our system managed to build high resolution structures that are comparable to those produced by human experts.
  • FRAZOR utilizes a linear programming model for finding structural alphabet candidates for a target sequence. The 3D structure of a protein sequence can be assembled from substructures that correspond to small segments of the sequence. For each small sequence segment, there are only a few likely substructures. They are called the structural alphabet for the segment. Classical approaches such as ROSETTA used sequence profile and secondary structure information to predict structural alphabet. In contrast, we utilized more structural information, such as solvent accessibility and contact capacity, for finding structural alphabet. We used an integer linear programming technique to derive the best combination of these sequences and structural information. Using this additional information, we were able to generate significantly more accurate and succinct structural alphabets ? more than 50% improvement over the accuracies obtained previously by others. With these novel structural alphabets, we are able to construct more accurate protein structures than the state-of-the-art ab initio protein structure prediction programs such as ROSETTA. We are also able to reduce the Kolodny's library size by a factor of 8, at the same accuracy.


Last update date : 10 Jan 2018