Cheng-Hung joined the lab in 2021 and was a PhD student in the Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics program. His work focused on developing methods and application of metagenomics in fungi and soil microbiomes, phylogenomics, and software engineering. He returned to the lab for a short-term postdoc to complete some of his PhD projects and develop new methods and software.
His current software includes
- PHYling - phylogenomics tool and pipeline
- dbCANlight - pyhmmer speedup of dbCAN tool