Research Overview:

    I (Jinn-Moon Yang) am a full professor of Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Our primary goal is to study inhibitor-protein-pathway-disease relationships in a cell. The major research areas include drug discovery, structural bioinformatics, and systems biology. I published over 90 SCI papers on some journals, such as Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, PLOS Computational Biology, Scientific Reports, and Bioinformatics. My h-index is 30 and 22 based on Google scholar and ISI Web of Knowledge, respectively. Based on ISI and Google scholar databases, total numbers of citations are over 1,300 and 3,100, respectively. Our team has developed a molecular docking (GEMDOCK) and site-moiety map (SiMMap) for molecular interaction (e.g., protein-ligand and protein-protein) mechanism analysis. My team achieved successful results on a fast protein structure search tool (3D-BLAST) which is as fast as BLAST and has the features of BLAST. We are the first team to introduce protein-protein interacting family and protein-ligand family which is similar to the concept of the protein or gene family. I also joined the editorial boards of Scientific Reports and PLoS ONE.