Jan Zheng, MHCI
Phage Directory (Co-founder); NVIDIAI'm Jan, the other half of Phage Directory, and co-write Capsid & Tail.
Previously, I did data work at Phage Australia / Westmead Institute, where I built the biobank databases, data systems, and bioinformatics workflows for the clinical trial
I have a background in computer science and human-computer interaction, and I'm currently full-time at building the agentic layer for science at Nvidia.
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- Proof & Provenance: A biobank data platform for coordinating and sharing phages and resultsHow do you design a system that can share data across phage labs and biobanks? But also track where a phage came from and where a phage went? And along the way let each lab selectively pitch in their lab data? We'll get into some higher…
- C&T Round Up for June 2023!This month, we really put the CAPS lock in Capsid: from ORACLE to a CARB-X article on SNIPR, to AKTA and DBs, we really capitalized on many deep topics.
- Working with data in biologyThis week, Jan starts to apply ideas from the previous Data series to the world of biology work and biology data.
- C&T Round Up for May 2023!This month, we covered a new phage podcast, launched the Evergreen Phage Meeting sign up site, and talked about using databases for phage work!
- Working with DatabasesThis week, Jan continues his casual "Data Series" of posts to show how phage labs can start using relational databases today, with Airtable.
- Evergreen turns 50: celebrating Dr. Betty Kutter’s legacyThis week, we’re proud to open up registration for the Evergreen Phage Meeting. This year’s Evergreen phage meeting will be in-person (!), absolutely packed with science and activities (!!), and will be a celebration of both Betty’s…
- C&T Round Up for April 2023!This month, we talked about analyzing qPCR results, Phage Australia's official response to the Phage UK inquiry, and got hands on with building a project with ChatGPT!
- Phage Australia responds to UK Parliament’s phage inquiryThis week, we look at some highlights from a white paper that Phage Australia published as a response to the UK Parliament Inquiry on phage therapy.
- C&T Round Up for March 2023!This month we featured a new phage startup out of Shanghai, and massive write-ups on lab automation, working with tabular data, and using qPCR for phage therapy.
- Working with tabular dataThis week, Jan takes another detour into data-land, playing around with spreadsheets and tabular data, exploring VLOOKUP, pivot tables, and other formulas.
- C&T Round Up for February 2023!This month, we featured a new UK Phage Therapy initiative and wrote about lessons in scaling bio and how to think about data.
- How to think about dataThis week, Jan goes meta about data. Everyone throws around the term data, but what is it exactly? Jan explores the different kinds of data, how to work with data, and shares some ideas for keeping data neat and tidy.
- C&T Round Up for January 2023!This month, we wrote an article for GARDP about phage therapy business models. For this issue, we're also revisiting a couple of gems from Dr. Paul Jaschke's lab!
- 2023: A look aheadWell hello there, 2023! We’ve made great strides in the past year, gotten our hands wet in the lab (Jessica at least 😉), built data systems, and even delivered phages for patients. This year we aim to do a whole lot more of that! This…
- Reflecting back on 2022We’re at the end of the year again, and what a whirlwind of a 2022 it’s been! Here's our annual end-of-year reflection on what we're most proud of, what we've accomplished, & those who've helped us along the way!
- On Data Analytics and BiologyThis week, Jan takes a detour into data analytics! This follows up on the last informal Data Series post designing an auditable, replicable, and accessible phage data system. This time, Jan delves a bit deeper into what data analytics is,…
- C&T Round Up for November 2022!Happy December, everyone. I hope you've all enjoyed your Thanksgiving! Jessica and I took a short break in New Zealand and it was sublime. This past month, we featured an article by Adam Yang that explored COVID-19 and phages. We also…
- C&T Round Up for October 2022!This week, we highlight our October feature articles: Dive down the rabbit hole with us on designing phage data systems, building sustainable phage therapy, and get excited for this year's World Phage Week!
- How to design a phage data systemThis week Jan Zheng explores a few design decisions and considerations behind building a system for collecting data from every part of the phage therapy pipeline.
- MetaPhage: Towards user-friendly phage bioinformaticsMetaPhage is a new pipeline for turning raw reads into phage insights. It’s a massive step in the right direction towards one-click phage analysis. Here's my trying (and failing) to run MetaPhage on a laptop, and a short tutorial to get you…
