Yuming Zhou

Yuming Zhou

PhD Student
Plant Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email: yumingz5 [at] illinois (dot) edu

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Research Interests:
Computational Biology
Protein-DNA Interactions
Large Language Models

I am a PhD student in Plant Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Leakey and Prof. Diwakar Shukla. My research focuses on protein-DNA interactions using computational methods. I hold a BSc (1st Class Hons) in Bioinformatics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

My Profiles: Leakey Lab / Shukla Group / SIB Directory


Publications [Google Scholar]

SCOPE-DTI: Semi-Inductive Dataset Construction and Framework Optimization for Practical Usability Enhancement in Deep Learning-Based Drug Target Interaction Prediction
Chen, Yigang, Ji, Xiang, Zhang, Ziyue, Zhou, Yuming, Lin, Yang-Chi-Dung, Huang, Hsi-Yuan, Zhang, Tao, Lai, Yi, Chen, Ke, Su, Chang, Lin, Xingqiao, Zhu, Zihao, Zhang, Yanggyi, Wei, Kangping, Fu, Jiehui, Huang, Yixian, Cui, Shidong, Yen, Shih-Chung, Warshel, Ariel, Huang, Hsien-Da
arXiv preprint (2025)
[Paper] [Link]
miRStart 2.0: Enhancing miRNA Regulatory Insights through Deep Learning-Based TSS Identification
Xu, Jiatong, Wan, Jingting, Huang, Hsi-Yuan, Chen, Yigang, Huang, Yixian, Huang, Junyang, Zhang, Ziyue, Su, Chang, Zhou, Yuming, Lin, Xingqiao, Lin, Yang-Chi-Dung, Huang, Hsien-Da
Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 53(D1), pp. D138-D146 (2025)
[Paper] [Link]

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