Papers

2026

Gut metagenomic K-mer signature outperforms Akkermansia muciniphila and taxonomy for predicting immunotherapy response in non-small cell lung cancer

Hao Xuan, Ben Liu, Cuncong Zhong, Jun Zhang

Revising

SNAIL: Software NAmed entity Identification from Literature

Hao Xuan, Rithvij Pasupuleti, Jun Zhang, Zijun Yao, Cuncong Zhong

Revising

A general and extensible algorithmic framework to biological sequence alignment across scales and applications

Hao Xuan, Hongyang Sun, Xiangtao Liu, Hanyuan Zhang, Jun Zhang, Cuncong Zhong

bioRxiv preprint

DOI

2025

Dietary water intake correlates with therapeutic outcomes in advanced NSCLC treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

Zhang, J., H. Xuan, T. McCorkle, Q. Dai, D. Sullivan, K. Lee, M. Phadnis, C. Zhong, C. H. Huang

Immuno-Oncology and Technology journal

DOI

Neonatal gut microbiota succession in mice mapped by maturation, site, injury, and single immunoglobulin interleukin-1 related receptor genotype

Hao Xuan, Shahid Umar, Wenhao Yu, Imran Ahmed, Cuncong Zhong, Michael Morowitz, Venkatesh Sampath

iScience journal

DOI

2024

Aging induces changes in cancer formation and microbial content in a murine model of bladder cancer

Woolbright, B. L., Xuan, H., Ahmed, I., Rajendran, G., Abbott, E., Dennis, K., Taylor III, J. A.

GeroScience journal

DOI

Lactobacillus rhamnosus modulates murine neonatal gut microbiota and inflammation caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli

Hao Xuan, Shahid Umar, Cuncong Zhong, Wenhao Yu, Imran Ahmed, Jessica L. Wheatley, Venkatesh Sampath, Sabrina Chavez-Bueno

BMC Microbiology journal

DOI

2023

Innovative Family-Based Genetically Informed Series of Analyses of Whole-Exome Data Supports Likely Inheritance for Grammar in Children with Specific Language Impairment

Andres, E. M., Earnest, K. K., Xuan, H., Zhong, C., Rice, M. L., Raza, M. H.

Children journal

DOI

Academic Services

Journal Reviewer

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes – Nature
Scientific Reports – Nature
Bratislava Medical Journal – Springer Nature

Conference Reviewer

International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) – IEEE
BIOKDD – ACM
International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences – ISCB
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics – ACM