Previous Research (Google Scholar)

Before I joined Rice University, my research projects focus on bioinformatics and biostatistics. The following publications are part of my work completed during my MPhil program at Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Batch effects correction for microbiome data with Dirichlet-multinomial regression
Zhenwei Dai, Sunny H Wong, Jun Yu, Yingying Wei.
Bioinformatics. 2019 Mar 1;35(5):807-14.. Paper Link

Multi-cohort analysis of colorectal cancer metagenome identified altered bacteria across populations and universal bacterial markers
Zhenwei Dai, Olabisi Oluwabukola Coker, Geicho Nakatsu, etc.
Microbiome 6, no. 1 (2018): 70.. Paper Link

Mucosal microbiome dysbiosis in gastric carcinogenesis
Olabisi Oluwabukola Coker, Zhenwei Dai, Yongzhan Nie, etc.
Gut, 67(6):1024–1032, 2018.. Paper Link