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Xiaoyu (Sara) Yang (Fed)
Dr. Yang has been working in bioinformatics since 2001, primarily in the areas of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics and proteomics. Before she joined NIST, she developed the DBParser software package for high-throughput shotgun proteomics data analysis at NIH in 2003. At NIST, she developed numerous algorithms and software programs for building the NIST Tandem Mass Spectral Library of small molecules, peptides, and glycopeptides. She developed various quality control tools for library examination. She also created the first high-resolution Tandem Mass Spectral Library of single protein digests of HSA.
NRC Postdoctoral Research Opportunity
Awards:
Department of Commerce Gold Medal for developing novel computational algorithms that led to the extraordinary and efficient expansion of the NIST Tandem Mass Spectral Library, 2019.
Gears of Government Awards for distinguished contribution for building the NIST Tandem Mass Spectral Library, 2020.
NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Accolade for Outreach, 2023.
Scientific Societies:
American Society for Mass Spectrometry (member Since 2007)
Session Chair for "Informatics: Metabolomics and Lipidomics" (ASMS meeting 2024)
Co-organizer for the MS Libraries Interest Group's kickoff workshop "Exploring the World of Mass Spectral Libraries, Library Search Software and Their Applications" (ASMS meeting 2023)
Co-coordinator of the ASMS Interest Group "Mass Spectral Libraries," 2023.
Member of ASMS 2022 Program Committee
Organizer for the workshop "MS Libraries for Compound Identification" (ASMS meeting 2021)
Co-organizer for the workshop "Compound Identification by Mass Spectral Library Searching" (ASMS meeting 2020)
Session Chair for "Informatics: Metabolomics" (ASMS meeting 2018)
Co-organizer for the symposium “Compound Identification with LC/MS and GC/MS: Experimental Method, Data Analysis and Applications” (ACS Spring Meeting 2021)
Selected Publications:
MS_Piano: A Software Tool for Annotating Peaks in CID Tandem Mass Spectra of Peptides and N‐Glycopeptides
Extending a Tandem Mass Spectral Library to Include MS2 Spectra of Fragment Ions Produced In-Source and MSn Spectra (also featured in "Women in Mass Spectrometry")
Quality Control for Building Libraries from Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectra