Chengcang Charles Wu is a Chinese-born American scientist with expertise in the fields of genetics, bioinformatics, and genomics, particularly large fragment DNA cloning and BAC (Bacterial Artificial Chromosome) library technologies. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Wu is the main contributor of the first soybean physical map. [5] He is also one of the inventors of plant artificial chromosomes, [4] Fungal Artificial Chromosomes and related technologies. [1]
Wu was the founding vice president of Lucigen Corporation. In 2013, Wu Founded Intact Genomics, Inc. in St. Louis Missouri.
Anhui Agricultural University, China, B.S., Biology. M.S., Genetics
Iwate University, Japan, Ph.D, Bioenvironmental Science
- ^ a b Clevenger, Kenneth D; Bok, Jin Woo; Ye, Rosa; Miley, Galen P; Verdan, Maria H; Velk, Thomas; Chen, Cynthia; Yang, KaHoua; Robey, Matthew T (2017-06-12). "A scalable platform to identify fungal secondary metabolites and their gene clusters". Nature Chemical Biology. 13 (8): 895–901. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2408. PMC 5577364. PMID 28604695.
- ^ Alexeyenko, Andrey; Nystedt, Björn; Vezzi, Francesco; Sherwood, Ellen; Ye, Rosa; Knudsen, Bjarne; Simonsen, Martin; Turner, Benjamin; de Jong, Pieter (2014-06-06). "Efficient de novo assembly of large and complex genomes by massively parallel sequencing of Fosmid pools". BMC Genomics. 15 (1): 439. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-439. PMC 4070561. PMID 24906298.
- ^ Zhang, Hong-Bin; Scheuring, Chantel F.; Zhang, Meiping; Zhang, Yang; Wu, Cheng-Cang; Dong, Jennifer J.; Li, Yaning (2012-02-16). "Construction of BIBAC and BAC libraries from a variety of organisms for advanced genomics research". Nature Protocols. 7 (3): 479–499. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2011.456. PMID 22343430. S2CID 205465264.
- ^ a b Ananiev, Evgueni V.; Wu, Chengcang; Chamberlin, Mark A.; Svitashev, Sergei; Schwartz, Chris; Gordon-Kamm, William; Tingey, Scott (April 2009). "Artificial chromosome formation in maize (Zea mays L.)". Chromosoma. 118 (2): 157–177. doi: 10.1007/s00412-008-0191-3. PMID 19015867.
- ^ Wu, Chengcang; Sun, Shuku; Nimmakayala, Padmavathi; Santos, Felipe A.; Meksem, Khalid; Springman, Rachael; Ding, Kejiao; Lightfoot, David A.; Zhang, Hong-Bin (February 2004). "A BAC- and BIBAC-Based Physical Map of the Soybean Genome". Genome Research. 14 (2): 319–326. doi: 10.1101/gr.1405004. PMC 327108. PMID 14718376.