Kei-Hoi Cheung, PhD
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Research Summary
As the number of life science databases and analytic tools increase, the interoperation of such databases and tools has become important and challenging. We tackle this challenge by exploring efficient and innovative approaches involving the use of ontologies, semantic web, metadata, natural language processing and high performance computing. Dr. Cheung has been collaborating with many faculty members in different departments and core facilities including Genetics, Biology, Computer Science, Biostatistics, and Yale Keck Protein Profiling Facility. His research has been carried out in the context of integrating and analyzing: a) genomics data, b) proteomics data including mass spectrometry (MS) data, c) immunology data and d) neuroscience data.
Specialized Terms: Genetic database; Tool interpolation
Extensive Research Description
Ongoing Projects:
- Yale Protein Expression Database (YPED). YPED is an institution-wide database for use by proteomics researchers at Yale and outside of Yale
- Human Immunology Project Consortium (HIPC). HIPC was established by NIAID, which generates a wide variety of phenotypic and molecular data from well-characterized patient cohorts, including genome-wide
expression profiling, high-dimensional flow cytometry and serum cytokine concentrations. The adoption and adherence
to data standards is critical to enable data integration across HIPC centers, and facilitate data re-use by the wider scientific community. One key component of HIPC involves data standardization effort, along with the infrastructure that has been developed. - Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR). CEDAR is part of the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative funded by NIH. It studies the creation of comprehensive and expressive metadata for biomedical datasets to facilitate data discovery, data interpretation, and data reuse.
- Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP). To extract and retrieve information from large amounts of clinical notes (unstructured data) for facilitating clinical research, a variety of NLP techniques including the incorporation of ontologies have been explored in different domains including lung/colon cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychogenic nonepileptic seizure, and chronic pain.
Research Interests
Anesthesiology; Emergency Medicine; Medical Informatics; Technology; Databases, Genetic
Selected Publications
- Utilizing protein structure to identify non-random somatic mutationsRyslik GA, Cheng Y, Cheung KH, Modis Y, Zhao H. Utilizing protein structure to identify non-random somatic mutations BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14: 190. PMID: 23758891, PMCID: PMC3691676, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-190.
- A semantic web framework to integrate cancer omics data with biological knowledgeHolford ME, McCusker JP, Cheung KH, Krauthammer M. A semantic web framework to integrate cancer omics data with biological knowledge BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13: s10. PMID: 22373303, PMCID: PMC3471346, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-s1-s10.
- Structured digital tables on the Semantic Web: toward a structured digital literatureCheung KH, Samwald M, Auerbach RK, Gerstein MB. Structured digital tables on the Semantic Web: toward a structured digital literature Molecular Systems Biology 2010, 6: 403-403. PMID: 20739925, PMCID: PMC2950080, DOI: 10.1038/msb.2010.45.
- AlzPharm: integration of neurodegeneration data using RDFLam H, Marenco L, Clark T, Gao Y, Kinoshita J, Shepherd G, Miller P, Wu E, Wong GT, Liu N, Crasto C, Morse T, Stephens S, Cheung KH. AlzPharm: integration of neurodegeneration data using RDF BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8: s4. PMID: 17493287, PMCID: PMC1892101, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-s3-s4.
- YeastHub: a semantic web use case for integrating data in the life sciences domainCheung KH, Yip KY, Smith A, Deknikker R, Masiar A, Gerstein M. YeastHub: a semantic web use case for integrating data in the life sciences domain Bioinformatics 2005, 21: i85-i96. PMID: 15961502, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti1026.