Jin-Wu Nam, PhD, National Research Foundation, South Korea
Junil Kim, PhD, Soongsil University, South Korea
Hyobin Jeong, PhD, Yonsei University, South Korea
Joon-Yong An, PhD, Korea University, South Korea
Genomics & Informatics is calling for submissions to our Collection on Cutting Edge Single-cell & Spatial Informatics.
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Recently, single-cell and spatial omics technologies have paved the way to explore cellular heterogeneity in various tissues, developmental stages, and disease statuses. Single-cell and spatial omics technologies not only measure the transcriptome but also extend their scope to the genome, epigenome, and proteome. With this technological development, there has been a huge demand for bioinformatics methodologies that can handle and integrate high-dimensional, high-throughput single-cell and spatial multi-omics datasets. These bioinformatics methodologies include the construction of atlas-scale databases, multivariate statistics, machine learning, and network analysis. Recently, these approaches have also been enhanced by large language models and AI.
In this special edition, we aim to collect review articles on cutting-edge single-cell and spatial informatics, focusing on the following subtopics:
Jin-Wu Nam, PhD, National Research Foundation, South Korea
Jin-Wu Nam has been the Director of the Next-Generation Biotechnology Division at the National Research Foundation (NRF) since December 2023. Before this, he was Deputy Director at the HY Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (HY-IBB) from December 2021 to December 2023. He’s been a Professor at Hanyang University’s Department of Life Science since September 2012. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT/Whitehead Institute (2008–2012). Jin-Wu earned his MS and PhD in Bioinformatics at Seoul National University (2002–2007) and his BS in Biology from Yonsei University (1994–2001).
Junil Kim, PhD, Soongsil University, South KoreaJunil Kim has been an Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics at Soongsil University since 2021. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen (2018–2021). He also held postdoctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania (2016–2018) and CHA University (2014–2015). Junil Kim earned his Ph.D. in Systems Biology from KAIST (2014), his M.S. in Bioinformatics from Seoul National University (2008), and his B.S. in Bioinformatics from Soongsil University (2005).
Hyobin Jeong, PhD, Yonsei University, South KoreaHyobin Jeong joined Yonsei University as an Assistant Professor in Systems Biology in March 2024. She was a Research Professor at the Hanyang Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (September 2022–February 2024). Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at EMBL (2017–2022), the Institute of Molecular Biology (2016–2017), and the Institute of Basic Science (2015). Hyobin obtained her Ph.D. in Systems Biology from I-Bio, POSTECH (2014), and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from POSTECH (2010).
Joon-Yong An, PhD, Korea University, South KoreaJoon-Yong An has been an Associate Professor at Korea University’s Department of Biosystems and Biomedical Sciences since 2022, after serving as an Assistant Professor there since 2019. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (2015–2019). Joon-Yong received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Queensland (2016), his M.S. in Molecular Biology (2011), and his B.S. in Molecular Biotechnology from Konkuk University (2010).
This Collection welcomes submission of research and review articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Cutting Edge Single-cell & Spatial Informatics” under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.