Zhiping Weng
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| workplaces = University of Massachusetts
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| alma_mater = University of Science and Technology of China (BSc)
Boston University (PhD)
| thesis_title = Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/304338123
| thesis_year = 1997
| doctoral_advisor = Charles DeLisi
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| awards = ISCB Fellow (2020)
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}}Zhiping Weng is the Li Weibo Professor of Biomedical Research and founding Chair of Department of Genomics and Computational Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.{{Cite web |date=2013-09-05 |title=Genomics and Computational Biology |url=https://www.umassmed.edu/GCB/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=UMass Chan Medical School |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Zhiping Weng {{!}} Profiles RNS |url=https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/129900 |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=profiles.umassmed.edu}} Prior to that, she was the Director of the Program in Integrative Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.{{Google scholar id}}{{EuropePMC}}{{DBLP}}{{Scopus id}} She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows|title=ISCB Fellows|website=iscb.org|publisher=International Society for Computational Biology|author=Anon|year=2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.iscb.org/iscb-news-items/4250-2020-feb19-iscb-congratulates-2020-class-fellows|title=ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!|website=iscb.org|year=2020|author=Anon}}
Education
Weng was educated at the University of Science and Technology of China{{Cite web|url=https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/129900|title=Zhiping Weng | Profiles RNS|website=profiles.umassmed.edu}} and Boston University where her PhD on the biochemistry of protein-ligand binding was supervised by Charles DeLisi and awarded in 1997.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|first=Zhiping|last=Weng|publisher=Boston University|id={{ProQuest|304338123}}{{ProQuest|304338123}}|oclc=38760266|title=Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations|year=1997}}{{Cite web|url=https://academictree.org/chemistry/peopleinfo.php?pid=738328|title=Chemistry Tree - Zhiping Weng|website=academictree.org|publisher=Academic Tree}}
Career and research
Weng's research interests are in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, epigenomics and transcriptional regulation. She is known for her ZDOCK suite of protein-protein docking algorithms,{{cite journal|last1=Chen|first1=Rong|last2=Li|first2=Li|last3=Weng|first3=Zhiping|title=ZDOCK: An initial-stage protein-docking algorithm|journal=Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics|volume=52|issue=1|year=2003|pages=80–87|issn=0887-3585|doi=10.1002/prot.10389|pmid=12784371|s2cid=14465607 }} leadership of ENCODE,{{cite journal|author=The ENCODE Project Consortium|title=Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project|journal=Nature|volume=447|issue=7146|year=2007|pages=799–816|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/nature05874|pmid=17571346 |pmc=2212820|bibcode=2007Natur.447..799B }}{{cite journal|author=The ENCODE Project Consortium|title=An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome|journal=Nature|volume=489|issue=7414|year=2012|pages=57–74|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/nature11247|pmid=22955616 |pmc=3439153|bibcode=2012Natur.489...57T }} PsychENCODE,{{cite journal|last1=Akbarian|first1=Schahram|last2=Liu|first2=Chunyu|last3=Knowles|first3=James A|last4=Vaccarino|first4=Flora M|last5=Farnham|first5=Peggy J|last6=Crawford|first6=Gregory E|last7=Jaffe|first7=Andrew E|last8=Pinto|first8=Dalila|last9=Dracheva|first9=Stella|last10=Geschwind|first10=Daniel H|last11=Mill|first11=Jonathan|last12=Nairn|first12=Angus C|last13=Abyzov|first13=Alexej|last14=Pochareddy|first14=Sirisha|last15=Prabhakar|first15=Shyam|last16=Weissman|first16=Sherman|last17=Sullivan|first17=Patrick F|last18=State|first18=Matthew W|last19=Weng|first19=Zhiping|last20=Peters|first20=Mette A|last21=White|first21=Kevin P|last22=Gerstein|first22=Mark B|last23=Amiri|first23=Anahita|last24=Armoskus|first24=Chris|last25=Ashley-Koch|first25=Allison E|last26=Bae|first26=Taejeong|last27=Beckel-Mitchener|first27=Andrea|last28=Berman|first28=Benjamin P|last29=Coetzee|first29=Gerhard A|last30=Coppola|first30=Gianfilippo|last31=Francoeur|first31=Nancy|last32=Fromer|first32=Menachem|last33=Gao|first33=Robert|last34=Grennan|first34=Kay|last35=Herstein|first35=Jennifer|last36=Kavanagh|first36=David H|last37=Ivanov|first37=Nikolay A|last38=Jiang|first38=Yan|last39=Kitchen|first39=Robert R|last40=Kozlenkov|first40=Alexey|last41=Kundakovic|first41=Marija|last42=Li|first42=Mingfeng|last43=Li|first43=Zhen|last44=Liu|first44=Shuang|last45=Mangravite|first45=Lara M|last46=Mattei|first46=Eugenio|last47=Markenscoff-Papadimitriou|first47=Eirene|last48=Navarro|first48=Fábio C P|last49=North|first49=Nicole|last50=Omberg|first50=Larsson|last51=Panchision|first51=David|last52=Parikshak|first52=Neelroop|last53=Poschmann|first53=Jeremie|last54=Price|first54=Amanda J|last55=Purcaro|first55=Michael|last56=Reddy|first56=Timothy E|last57=Roussos|first57=Panos|last58=Schreiner|first58=Shannon|last59=Scuderi|first59=Soraya|last60=Sebra|first60=Robert|last61=Shibata|first61=Mikihito|last62=Shieh|first62=Annie W|last63=Skarica|first63=Mario|last64=Sun|first64=Wenjie|last65=Swarup|first65=Vivek|last66=Thomas|first66=Amber|last67=Tsuji|first67=Junko|last68=van Bakel|first68=Harm|last69=Wang|first69=Daifeng|last70=Wang|first70=Yongjun|last71=Wang|first71=Kai|last72=Werling|first72=Donna M|last73=Willsey|first73=A Jeremy|last74=Witt|first74=Heather|last75=Won|first75=Hyejung|last76=Wong|first76=Chloe C Y|last77=Wray|first77=Gregory A|last78=Wu|first78=Emily Y|last79=Xu|first79=Xuming|last80=Yao|first80=Lijing|last81=Senthil|first81=Geetha|last82=Lehner|first82=Thomas|last83=Sklar|first83=Pamela|last84=Sestan|first84=Nenad|title=The PsychENCODE project|journal=Nature Neuroscience|volume=18|issue=12|year=2015|pages=1707–1712|issn=1097-6256|doi=10.1038/nn.4156|pmid=26605881 |pmc=4675669|display-authors=11}} and work on small RNA biology and piwi-interacting RNA (piRNAs).
=Awards and honors=
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