Jenn-Kang Hwang  黃鎮剛

Department of Biological Science & Technology, Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University

Tel: +886-3-513-1337, Fax: +886-3-572-9288

E-Mail: jkhwang@cc.nctu.edu.tw

Employment

2000-Present   Professor, Department of Biological Science & Technology, National Chiao Tung University

2002-2004    Director, Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University

2001-2003    Chairman, Department of Biological Science & Technology, National Chiao Tung University

1999-2000       Director, Institute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University

1997-2000       Professor, Dept Life Sciences, National Tsin Hua University

1993-1997       Associate Professor, Dept Life Sciences, National Tsing Hua University

Education

1982-1988      Ph.D. in Computational Biology, University of Southern Californian. USA

1975-1979       B.S. in Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan

 

Reviewers and Editors

Guest Editor of Journal Information Science & Engineering

Reviewers of Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acid Research, Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Proteins, Mathematical Bioscience, Physica

Research Interest

Structural Bioinformatics

Protein structure prediction and classification

Molecular simulation of enzymatic reactions

Protein folding

QM/MM molecular simulation

Molecular graphics

Publications

Hwang JK, Yen GC, Hwang LS, Detection of Vegetable Oil Adulteration by HPLC Analysis of Triglycerides. J. Chin. Agric. Chem. Soc. 91, 20 (1982).

Warshel A, Hwang JK, Quantized Semiclassical Trajectory Approach for Evaluation of Vibronic Transitions in Anharmonic Molecules. J. Chem. Phys.1756, 82 (1985).

Hwang JK, Warshel A, Semiclassical Simulation of the Spectra of Anharmonic Molecules: Problems and Alternatives. Chem. Phys. Lett. 115, 182 (1985).

Hwang JK Warshel A, A Shortcut for Multidimensional Quantization. The Average Partial Action Method. Chem. Phys. Lett. 118, 289 (1985).

Warshel A, Hwang JK, Simulation of the Dynamics of Electron Transfer Reactions in Polar Solvents: Semiclassical Trajectories and Dispersed Polaron Approaches. J. Chem. Phys. 84, 4938 (1986).

Hwang JK, Warshel A,Semiquantitative Calculations of Catalytic Free energies in Genetically Modified Subtilisin. Biochemistry, 26, 2669 (1987).

Hwang JK, Warshel A, Microscopic Examination of Free-Energy Relationships for Electron Transfer in Polar Solvents. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 109, 715 (1987).

Hwang JK, Warshel A, Why Ion Pair Reversal by Protein Engineering is Unlikely to Succeed. Nature, 334,  270 (1988).

Warshel A, Sussman F, Hwang JK, Evaluation of Catalytic Free Energies in Genetically Modified Proteins. J. Mol. Biol. 201, 139 (1988).

Creighton S, Hwang JK, Warshel A, Parson WW, Norris J, Simulating The Dynamics of the Primary Charge Separation Process in Bacterial Photosynthesis. Biochemistry  27 774 (1988).

Hwang JK, Sussman F, Warshel A, Simulating the Energetics and Dynamics of Enzymatic Reactions in Genetically Modified Enzymes in Structure and Expression, edited by Sarma RH and Sarma  MH(Adenine Press,New York 1988), p. 95.

Hwang JK, Creighton S, G. King, D. Whitney, and A. Warshel, Effects of Solute-Solvent Coupling and Solvent Saturation on Solvation Dynamics of Charge Transfer Reactions. J. Chem. Phys. 89, 859 (1988).

Hwang JK, King G, Creighton and A. Warshel, Simulation of Free Energy Relationships and Dynamics of SN2 Reactions in Aqueous Solutions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 5297 (1988).

Warshel A, Naray-Szabo G, Sussman F, Hwang JK, How Do Serine Proteases Really Work? Biochemistry  28, 3629 (1989).

Hwang JK, Chu ZT,  Yadav  A, Warshel A, Simulations of Quantum Mechanical Corrections for Rate Constants of Hydride-transfer Reactions in Enzymes and Solutions. J. Phys. Chem. 95 8445(1991).

Warshel A, Naray-Szabo G, Sussman F & Hwang JK, Perspectives in Biochemitsry Vol II, edited by Hans Neurath, (American Chemical Society 1991), p. 115.

Warshel A, Chu ZT, Hwang JK, The Dynamics of the Primary event in rhodopsins revisted.Chem. Phys. 158, 303 (1991)

 

Warshel A, Hwang JK, Åqvist J, Computer Simulations of Enzymatic reactions: Examination of Linear Free-Energy Relationships and Quantum-mechanical Corrections in the Initial Proton-Transfer Step of Carbonic Anhydrase.  Faraday Discuss. 93, 225-238 (1992).

 

 Hwang JK, Warshel A, Quantized Classical Path Approach for Calculations of Quantum Mechanical Rate Constants.  J.  Phys. Chem. 97, 10053-10058 (1993).

 

Hwang JK, Chang CC, Computer Simulation of Enzymatic Reaction  Chemistry, 52, 246-250 (1994).

 

Hwang JK, Liao WF, Side-chain Prediction by Neural Networks and Simulated Annealing Optimization. Prot. Eng. 8, 363-370 (1995)

 

Hwang JK, Pan JJ, Simulation of Chemical Reactions in Solution by a Combination of Classical and Quantum Mechanical Approach. Chem. Phys. Lett. 243, 171-175 (1995)

 

 Pan JJ, Hwang JK, Mixed Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Simulations of Chemical Reactions in Solution and in Enzymes, in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing '96 edited by Lawrence Hunter and Teri E. Klein. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996) p.539-549

 

Hwang JK, Pan JJ, Classical Trajectory Mapping Approach for Simulations of Chemical Reactions in solution and in enzyme. J. Phys. Chem. 100, 909 (1996).

 

Hwang JK, Warshel A, How important are quantum mechanical nuclear motions in enzyme catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118, 11745 (1996)

 

Yang YS, Pan JJ, Hwang JK, Probing phenol binding environment of sulfotransferase. Protein Engineering   10A, 70 (1997)

 

Vyas A, Pan JJ, H. Patel V, Vyas KA, Chiang CM, Sheu YC, Hwang JK, Wu WG, Analysis of binding of cobra cardiotoxins to heparin reveals a new beta-sheet heparin-binding structural motif. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 9661(1997)

Hwang JK, Warshel A, On the relationship between the dispersed polaron and spin-boson models. Chem. Phys. Lett. 271, 223 (1997).

 

Chan FCH, Pan JJ, Fan ZZ, Hsieh FMJ, Hwang JK, Computer simulation of chemical reactions in biological systems, Chemistry, 55, 1 (1997)

 

Hwang JK, Calculation of quantum mechanical free energy at low temperature. Theo. Chem. Acc. 98, 202 (1998)

 

Hwang JK, The partial averaging Fourier path integral approach based on the harmonic reference path,  Theo. Chem. Acc. 101 (1999) 5, 359-363

 

Lin CH, Chan FCH, Hwang JK, Lyu PC, Calcium binding mode of g-carboxyglutamic acids in Conantokins, Protein Engineering (1999) 12, 101-107

Fan ZZ,  Hwang JK, Warshel A, Using simplified protein representaion as a reference potential for all-atom calculations of folding free energy  Theo. Chem. Acc. (1999) 103, 77-80

Lyu PC, Hwang JK, The Prospect and development of Bioinformatics Chem. Enginnering 48,  (2001) 97-102.

 

Chan CC, Hwang JK, From 1D sequence to 3D structure – structure entropy of peptide fragments. Comm. IICM (2001), 4, 127-133.

Yang JM, Tsai CH, Hwang MJ, Tsai HK, Hwang JK, Kao CY, GEM: A Gaussian evolutionary method for predicting protein side-chain conformations. Protein Sci. (2002), 11, 1897-1907.

Horng JT, Huang HD, Wang SH, Chen MY, and Hwang JK, Computing   motif correlations in proteins. J. Comp. Chem. (2003), 24, 2032-2043.

Chan CH, Lyu PC, Hwang JK, Computation of the Protein Structure Entropy and Its Applications to Protein Folding Processes J. Chin. Chem. Soc. (2003), 50, 677-684

Chuang A, Chen CY,  Yang JM, Lyu PC, Hwang JK, Relationship between protein structures and disulfide-binding patterns. Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics (2003) 52, 1-5.

Yu CS, Wang JY, Yang JM, Lyu PC, Lin CJ, Hwang JK, Fine-grained protein fold assignment by support vector machines using generalized n-peptide coding schemes and jury voting from multiple parameter sets. Proteins: Structure, Function, Genetics  (2003) 50,531-536.

Chen YC, Lin YS, Lin CJ and Hwang JK. Prediction of the Bonding States of Cysteines using the Support Vector Machines Based on Multiple Feature Vectors and Cysteine State Sequences. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics (2004), 55, 1046-42.

Yu CS, Lin CJ, Hwang JK, Predicting Subcellular Localization of Proteins For Gram-Negative Bacteria by Support Vector Machines Based on n-Peptide Compositions. Protein Science (2004), 13, 1402-1406

Yu JSK, Hwang JK, Tang CY, Yu CH. Numerical performance and throughput benchmark for electronic structure calculations in PC-Linux System with new architectures, updated compilers and library. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci (2004), 44, 635-642.

Chan CH, Liang HK, Hsiao NW, Ko MT, Lyu PC, Hwang JK. The relationship between local structural entropy and protein thermostability. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics (2004), 57, 684-691.

Huang SW, Hwang JK. Computation of conformational entropy from protein sequences using the machine-learning method :Application to the study of the relationship between structural conservation and local structural stability. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics (2005), 59, 802-809.

Liang HK, Huang CM, Ko MT, Hwang JK. The Amino Acid-Coupling Patterns in Thermophilic Proteins. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics (2005), 59, 58-63.

Lin YS, Tzeng CS, Hwang JK. Reassessment of morphological characters in freshwater eels (genus Anguilla, Anguillidae) shows congruence with molecular phylogeny estimate. Zoologica Scripta (2005), 34, 225-234.

Chen YC, Hwang JK Prediction of disulfide connectivity from protein sequences. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics (2005) In press.