Dr. Yu Xue is a professor at the Department of Systems Biology of College of Life Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his B.S. in Polymer Materials and Technology in 2002 and B.E. in Computer Science and Technology in 2003 from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He completed his Ph.D. training in Cell Biology and Bioinformatics in USTC (2002-2006). After a short stage as a research assistant (2007.1-2007.7), he was recruited as an associate professor at the Department of Systems Biology of Life Science School of USTC (2007-2009). During the past decade, Dr. Xue has published extensively on computational studies of post-translational modifications (PTMs), including developing novel GPS (Group-based Prediction System) series algorithms, studying several new PTMs (eg., protein lysine modifications), constructing easy-to-use softwares and databases, and proteome-wide analysis of PTMs substrates, etc. His group is currently combining systems biology, bioinformatics, and molecular & cellular biology approaches to analyze PTM proteomic data. Dr. Xue is an academic Editor of PLOS ONE, and an associated Editor of BMC Genomics. He has published over 40 papers, which have been cited nearly ~1,000 times, with an H-index of 17.