Kevin Xin

Jiwen (Kevin) Xin

Senior Research Scientist

Department of Integrative, Structural and Computational Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
kevinxin at scripps dot edu
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Bio

Kevin was a graduate student in The Scripps Research Institute, working on MyVariant.info project.
Interested in crowdsourcing, data mining, and web development. With his strong drive, he was quickly hired on as a staff scientist immediately upon graduation and has since been promoted to a Senior Research Scientist.

Education

Current: Successfully defended his dissertation on 2018.09.27
Undergraduate: Fudan University.

Recent Posts

New Data Release for MyVariant.info 201708

by Kevin Xin | Aug 10, 2017 | data release, myvariant.info

Another fresh data release for MyVariant.info is out! In this data release, we have updated the data from ClinVar and UniProtKB to their latest versions, and also added variant annotation from CIViC and Cancer Genome Interpreter. Here are more...

New Data Release for MyVariant.info 201706

by Kevin Xin | Jun 20, 2017 | data release, myvariant.info

Another fresh data release for MyVariant.info is out! In this data release, we have updated the data from ClinVar to their latest versions, and also added two new fields under ClinVar and ExAC to handle specific cases, including genotype set and...

New Data Release 201606

by Kevin Xin | Jul 18, 2016 | data release, myvariant.info

Another new data release was just rolled out. Some highlights of this new release include the support of GRCh38/hg38 genome assembly, updated and additional data sources, as well as new data fields added. All changes in this data release are...

New Data Release 201606

by Kevin Xin | Jul 18, 2016 | data release, myvariant.info

New data release out! ClinVar data structure overhauled

by Kevin Xin | Jan 6, 2016 | clinvar, data release, myvariant.info, myvariant.py

Update: On Jan. 18th, we updated ClinVar data to their latest 201501 release. Another new data release was just rolled out. ClinVar and CADD data were updated to their latest: last release new release # of variants in new release # of variants in...

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Kevin Xin

Jiwen (Kevin) Xin

Bio

Education

Recent Posts

New Data Release for MyVariant.info 201708

New Data Release for MyVariant.info 201706

New Data Release 201606

New Data Release 201606

New data release out! ClinVar data structure overhauled

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