Zhiyong Lu, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist
Computational Biology Branch
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Tel: 301-594-7089
Fax: 301-480-2288
Email: luzh at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Office: Bldg 38A, Rm 1003A

Short Biography
Zhiyong Lu is a Staff Scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, where he joined right after earning a PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His current research has focused on the problems of helping researchers find the specific publications that are relevant to their work, and having found those documents, then making that (sometimes very large) body of text manageable for them. He has published on these subjects as well as on matters related to automatically predicting protein subcellular localization. His CV is online.

Selected publications
  • w/Won Kim and John Wilbur, Evaluation of Query Expansion Using MeSH in PubMed, Information Retrieval, in press.
  • w/Won Kim and John Wilbur, Evaluating Relevance Ranking Strategies for MEDLINE Retrieval, JAMIA, in press.
  • w/Steven Bethard et al., Semantic Role Labeling for Protein Transport Predicates, BMC Bioinformatics, 9:277, 2008.
  • w/Larry Hunter and James Firby et al., OpenDMAP: An open-source, ontology-driven concept analysis engine, with applications to capturing knowledge regarding protein transport, protein interaction and cell specific gene expression, BMC Bioinformatics, 2008 Jan 31;9:78.
  • w/Bill Baumgartner and Helen Johnson et al., Concept recognition for extracting protein interaction relations from biomedical text, Genome Biology, 2008, 9(Suppl 2):S9.
  • w/Kevin Cohen and Larry Hunter, GeneRIF Quality Assurance As Summary Revision, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2007
  • w/Kevin Cohen and Larry Hunter, Finding GeneRIFs via GO Annotations, Pac Symp Biocomput, 2006
  • w/Duane Szafron and Paul Lu et al., Proteome Analyst: Custom Predictions with Explanations in a Web-based Tool for High-Throughput Proteome Annotations, Nucleic Acids Research, 2004 32:W365-W371.
  • w/Duane Szafron and Russ Greiner et al., Predicting Sub-cellular Localization of Proteins using Machine-Learned Classifiers, Bioinformatics 2004 20(4):547-556
Education and employment
My group
  • Aurelie Neveol, Ph.D.
  • Craig Murray, Ph.D. Student
I am looking to hire Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Fellows, PhD Students at the Computational Biology Branch of NCBI. Please email me for details.

Quick links
bioi7711 CBB Seminar ISCB
WebMail subcellular Dictionary
API 1.5.0 Weather Med Dict
Mailing address
NCBI / NLM / NIH
8600 Rockville Pike
Building 38A, Room 1003A
Bethesda, MD 20894, USA