Bo Peng, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Email

bo.peng@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor: Medicine - Epidemiology & Population Science
Baylor College of Medicine

Assistant Professor: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States

Education

MS from University of Houston: 06/2001 - Houston, Texas, United States

PhD from Rice University: 06/2006 - Houston, Texas, United States

Professional Statement

Dr. Peng’s specialties include genetic simulations, epidemiological association analysis, and bioinformatic and next-generation sequencing data analysis. As an open-source advocate and an experienced software developer, he is the author of multiple large-scale software projects, including simuPOP, Variant Tools, and SoS Polyglot Notebook and Workflow System, and is battling COVID-19 with his new covid19-outbreak-simulator.

Websites

VatLab on GitHub

VIICTR Publications List

Selected Publications

Wang G, Peng B.. " Script of Scripts: A pragmatic workflow system for daily computational research. " PLoS Comput Biol.. 2019 ;
Pubmed PMID: 30811390.
Peng B, Leong MC, Chen HS, Rotunno M, Brignole KR, Clarke J, Mechanic LE.. " Genetic Simulation Resources and the GSR Certification Program. " Bioinformatics. 2019 ;
Pubmed PMID: 30101297.
Peng B, Wang G, Ma J, Leong MC, Wakefield C, Melott J, Chiu Y, Du D, Weinstein JN. " SoS Notebook: an interactive multi-language data analysis environment " Bioinformatics. 2018 ;
Pubmed PMID: 29790910.
Peng B, Chen HS, Mechanic LE, Racine B, Clarke J, Gillanders E, Feuer EJ. " Genetic data simulators and their applications: an overview. Genet Epidemiol. " Genet Epidemiol.. 2015 ;
Pubmed PMID: 25504286.
Chen HS, Hutter CM, Mechanic LE, Amos CI, Bafna V, Hauser ER, Hernandez RD, Li C, Liberles DA, McAllister K, Moore JH, Paltoo DN, Papanicolaou GJ, Peng B, Ritchie MD, Rosenfeld G, Witte JS, Gillanders EM, Feuer EJ.. " Genetic simulation tools for post-genome wide association studies of complex diseases. " Genet Epidemiol.. 2015 ;
Pubmed PMID: 25371374.
Wang GT, Peng B, Leal SM. " Variant association tools for quality control and analysis of large-scale sequence and genotyping array data. " Am J Hum Genet.. 2014 ;
Pubmed PMID: 24791902.
Peng B, Chen HS, Mechanic LE, Racine B, Clarke J, Clarke L, Gillanders E, Feuer EJ.. " Genetic Simulation Resources: a website for the registration and discovery of genetic data simulators. " Bioinformatics. 2013 ;
Pubmed PMID: 23435068.

Projects

Script of Script: (08/2016 - present); Polyglot Notebook and Workflow System that provide an environment for both interactive data analysis and batch data processing.
Variant Tools: (05/2010 - present); Software tool for the manipulation, annotation, selection, and analysis of variants in the context of next-gen sequencing analysis
Genetic Simulation Resources: NCI (06/2012 - present); Genetic Simulation Resources (GSR) is a website provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that aims to help researchers compare and choose the appropriate simulation tools for their studies.

Funding

Computational tools for sequence-based large-scale epidemiology studies #R01HG008972: (06/14/2016 - 03/31/2021); Grant funding from NIGRI

Genetic simulation software registration & discovery system: National Cancer Institute

Skills

Bioinformatics

Genetic Epidemiology

Genetic Simulations