Vitae of Tree-Juen Chuang 莊樹諄

Mailing address: Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, 11529 Taipei, Taiwan

Phone: 886-2-26523993 Fax: 886-2-27832508

Email: trees@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Birth Date and Place: 15 December 1970; Taipei, Taiwan

Nationality: Taiwan Citizen

Education:

Institution	Degree	Field	Year
Soochow University, Taiwan	B.C.	Computer Science	1992
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan	Ph.D.	Computer and Information Science	1998

Positions Held:

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica (military service, 1998-2003)

Assistant Research Fellow, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, (2003-present)

Honors

T.J. Chuang, "Framework annotation of human genome," Post-doctoral Research Award of National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), 2000.

T.J. Chuang, J.C. Lin, and W.H. Tsai, "Image Hiding Using Digit Number Transformation," Academic Paper Awards from the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (IPPR) Society, 1998.

Research Interests:

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Evolutionary Genomics, Genome Annotation, Comparative Genomics, Human Genetics

Research Support (Principle Investigator):

1. Title: A Progressive Signal Extracting and Patching Method for Comparative Analysis and Annotation of Genomic Sequences (I)

(NSC 93-2218-E-001-001- ) (TJ Chuang) 01/01/2004 - 07/31/2004

National Science Council (NSC)

2. Title: A Progressive Signal Extracting and Patching Method for Comparative Analysis and Annotation of Genomic Sequences (II)

(NSC 93-2213-E-001-023- ) (TJ Chuang) 08/01/2004 - 07/31/2005

National Science Council (NSC)

3. Title: Comparative Analysis of Alternative Splicing in Evolution

(NHRI-EX94-9408PC) (TJ Chuang) 01/01/2005 - 12/31/2009 (five years)

National Health Research Institutes (NHRI): Career Development Grand

Publications:

(A) Journal papers

(A.1) Bioinformatics or Computing Biology

1. Trees-Juen Chuang, Wen-Chang Lin, Hurng-Chun Lee, Chi-Wei Wang, Keh-Lin Hsiao, Zi-Hao Wang, Danny Shieh, Simon C. Lin, and Lan-Yang Ch’ang, “A Complexity Reduction Algorithm for Analysis and Annotation of Large Genomic Sequences,” Genome Research, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 313-322, 2003.

2. Trees-Juen Chuang* and Feng-Chi Chen, “A Comparative Method for Identification of Gene Structures and Alternatively Spliced Variants,” Bioinformatics, Vol. 20, No. 17, pp.3064-3079, 2004. (*correspondence)

3. Feng-Chi Chen and Trees-Juen Chuang*. ESTviewer: a web interface for visualizing mouse, rat, cattle, pig and chicken conserved ESTs in human genes and human alternatively spliced variants. Bioinformatics 2005, 21, 2510-2513. (*correspondence)

4. Feng-Chi Chen, Sheng-Shun Wang, Chuang-Jong Chen, Wen-Hsiung Li* and Trees-Juen Chuang*. Alternatively and constitutively spliced exons are subject to different evolutionary forces. Molecular Biology and Evolution (Accepted subject to revision-minor revision), 2005. (*correspondence)

(A.2) Computer Image & Vision

1. T.J. Chuang and J.C. Lin, “Lossy Compression by Base Switching (BS),” Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 423-430, 1997.

2. T.J. Chuang and J.C. Lin, “A New Approach to Image Encryption,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 350-356, 1998.

3. T.J. Chuang and J.C. Lin, “A New Algorithm for Lossless Still Image Compression,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp.1343-1352, 1998.

4. T.J. Chuang and J.C. Lin, “On the Multiresolution Encryption of Still Image,” Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. Vol.9, No.3, pp. 431-436, 1999.

5. T.J. Chuang, J.C. Lin, and W.H. Tsai, “A New Efficient Approach to Image Hiding by Digit Number Transformation,” Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp.309-314, 2000.

(B) Conference papers

(B.1) Bioinformatics or Computing Biology

1. T.J. Chuang, W.C. Lin, and L.Y. Chang, "A New Algorithm for Global Alignment of DNA Sequence," Proc. of the second Taiwan Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Symposium, Nantou, Taiwan, Nov. 2000.

2. T.J. Chuang, W.C. Lin, and L.Y. Chang, " Framework Annotation of the Human Genome by CRASA," The fifth annual international conference on computational molecular biology (RECOMB2001), Montrèal, Canada (Currents in computational molecular biology pp.253-255), 2001.

(B.2) Computer Image & Vision

3. R.F. Su, T.J. Chuang, and J.C. Lin, “A Contour-based Color Image Compression Method,” Proc. of IPPR Conf. on CVGIP, Taichung, Taiwan, pp. 313-320, Aug. 1996.

4. T.J. Chuang and J.C. Lin, “On the Lossless Compression of Still Images,” Proc. of the 12th Intern. Computer Symposium on Image Processing and Character Recognition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, pp.230-237, Dec. 1996.

5. T.J. Chuang, J.C. Lin, and W.H. Tsai, "Image Hiding Using Digit Number Transformation," Proc. of IPPR Conf. on CVGIP, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 1998.

(C) Pending Patent:

T.J. Chuang and L.Y. Chang, “A Complexity Reduction Algorithm for Analysis and Annotation of Large Genomic Sequences” (submitted to ROC and USA Patent Offices, No. 02p0164).

(D) PH.D. Thesis:

T.J. Chuang, “Compression, Encryption, and Hiding of Still Images,” Department of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, May 1998.