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    Wen-Wei Liao, PhD

    Postdoctoral Associate
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    wen-wei.liao@yale.edu

    Yale School of Medicine

    100 College Street

    New Haven, CT 06510

    United States

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    Postdoctoral Associate

    Biography

    Wen-Wei Liao, born and raised in Taiwan, is a postdoctoral associate in Dr. Ira Hall’s lab at Yale School of Medicine. His work focuses on human pangenomics, structural variant detection, and the development of bioinformatics tools. As a member of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, he has contributed to building and refining the human pangenome reference, a resource designed to overcome the limitations of traditional linear genome models and advance understanding of genetic variation in health and disease.

    Last Updated on August 31, 2025.

    Appointments

    • Genetics

      Postdoctoral Associate
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      Genetics

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    Education & Training

    PhD
    Washington University in St. Louis, Biology and Biomedical Sciences
    MS
    National Tsing Hua University, Systems Neuroscience
    BS
    National Tsing Hua University, Life Science

    Research

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Wen-Wei Liao's published research.

    Publications

    2025

    • Highly accurate assembly polishing with DeepPolisher
      Mastoras M, Asri M, Brambrink L, Hebbar P, Kolesnikov A, Cook D, Nattestad M, Lucas J, Won T, Chang P, Carroll A, Paten B, Shafin K, Consortium A, Tayoun A, Albracht D, Allen J, Alsheikh-Ali A, Andrews C, Antipov D, Antonacci-Fulton L, Asri M, Ayllon M, Balacco J, Belter E, Bender H, Blair A, Buonaiuto S, Bolognini D, Bonini K, Boucher C, Bourque G, Cao S, Carroll A, Mc Cartney A, Cechova M, Chang P, Chang X, Cheema J, Cheng H, Ciofi C, Cody S, Colonna V, Conwell H, Cook-Deegan R, Diekhans M, Diroma M, Doerr D, Dong Z, Durbin R, Ebler J, Eichler E, Eizenga J, Eskandar P, Ferro E, Fiston-Lavier A, Ford S, Ford W, Formenti G, Frankish A, Freeberg M, Fu Q, Fullerton S, Fulton R, Gao Y, Garcia G, Garcia O, Gardner J, Garg S, Garrison E, Garrison N, Garza J, Ghorbani M, Graves-Lindsay T, Green R, Groza C, Guarracino A, Gymrek M, Haggerty L, Hall I, Hansen N, Hashmi M, Haeussler M, Haussler D, Hebbar P, Heringer P, Hickey G, Hillaker T, Hossain S, Huang N, Hunt S, Hunt T, Jafarzadeh N, Jain N, Jarvis E, Jiang J, LoTempio J, Kenny E, Kim J, Koo B, Koren S, Kremitzki M, Langmead B, Zhuo X, Lawson H, Li D, Li H, Liao W, Lin J, Liu T, Logsdon G, Lorig-Roach R, Loucks H, Loveland J, Lu J, Lu S, Lucas J, Macias-Velasco J, Marin M, Marsico F, Makova K, Markovic C, Marschall T, Martin F, Mastoras M, Mayoud C, McNulty B, Medico J, Menendez J, Miga K, Minkina A, Mitchell M, Mohanty S, Mokrab Y, Monlong J, Moosa S, Moreno-Ochando A, Morishita S, Mudge J, Munson K, Mwaniki N, Nassir N, Natali C, Negi S, Ni L, Novak A, Owa C, Paez S, Paten B, Clawson H, Peano C, Phillippy A, Pickett B, Pignata L, Pisanti N, Porubsky D, Prins P, Radhakrishnan A, Raney B, Rautiainen M, Raveane A, Ren L, Rhie A, Salehi F, Sacco S, Schatz M, Scheinfeldt L, Sehgal A, Seligmann W, Shabani M, Shafin K, Shahatit S, Shemirani R, Shivakumar V, Sinha S, Sirén J, Smeds L, Solar S, Sollitto M, Soranzo N, Stergachis A, Suner M, Suzuki Y, Söylev A, Tierney J, Tomlinson C, Tricomi F, Uddin M, Ungaro M, Varki R, Villani F, Vollger M, Walenz B, Wang C, Wang L, Wang T, Wenger A, Whelan C, Xin Z, Xu Z, Ye K, Yoo D, Zhang W, Zhou Y, Violich I, Zunino G. Highly accurate assembly polishing with DeepPolisher. Genome Research 2025, 35: 1595-1608. PMID: 40389286, PMCID: PMC12212083, DOI: 10.1101/gr.280149.124.
      Peer-Reviewed Original Research

    2024

    2023

    • Recombination between heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes.
      Guarracino A, Buonaiuto S, de Lima LG, Potapova T, Rhie A, Koren S, Rubinstein B, Fischer C, Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, Gerton JL, Phillippy AM, Colonna V, Garrison E. Recombination between heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes. Nature 2023, 617: 335-343. PMID: 37165241, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05976-y.
      Peer-Reviewed Original Research
    • Increased mutation and gene conversion within human segmental duplications.
      Vollger MR, Dishuck PC, Harvey WT, DeWitt WS, Guitart X, Goldberg ME, Rozanski AN, Lucas J, Asri M, Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, Munson KM, Lewis AP, Hoekzema K, Logsdon GA, Porubsky D, Paten B, Harris K, Hsieh P, Eichler EE. Increased mutation and gene conversion within human segmental duplications. Nature 2023, 617: 325-334. PMID: 37165237, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05895-y.
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