Allen Yu, Ph.D. is the co-founder of Codex Genetics Limited, which aims to provide personalized medicine service in Asia with latest genomics technology. Allen has used Python and Matplotlib extensively during his 10-year experience in the field of bioinformatics and Big data analytics. During his research career, Allen published 12 international scientific research articles and presented in 4 international conferences, including on-stage presentations in the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software (COFES) 2011, USA, and Genome Informatics 2014, U.K. Other research highlights include discovering a novel subtype of Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA40), identifying the cause of pathogenesis for a patient with Spastic paraparesis, leading the Gold medalist team in 2011 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, and co-developing ViralFusionSeq that can detect viral integration events (e.g. HBV/HCV/HPV) in cancer genomes.
