Xiao Wang LabPlant metabolomics
Developing methods for large-scale LC-MS data, metabolite annotation, origin inference and functional module analysis.
Xiao Wang Lab
Decoding plant
metabolism.
We explore plant metabolomics, multi-omics integration and crop quality through open, reproducible methods and software.
Lecturer · College of Life Sciences / Houji Laboratory, Shanxi Agricultural University
PLANTS · METABOLITES · DATA01 / RESEARCH
Research interests
01 / FOCUSMulti-omics & crop quality
Integrating metabolomes, transcriptomes and genetic variation to investigate specialized metabolism and crop quality.
Open tools & reproducibility
Turning bioinformatics methods into accessible, reusable research tools with R, Shiny and reproducible workflows.
Selected publications
All publications ↗2026
TidyMass2: advancing LC-MS untargeted metabolomics through metabolite origin inference and metabolic feature-based functional module analysis ↗
Wang, X., Liu, Y., Jiang, C., Huang, Z., Yan, H., Wong, S. H., Johnson, C. H., Zhang, J., Ge, Y., Zhang, F., Zhang, J., Lai, R., Gao, P., Zhang, X., & Shen, X.
Nature Communications, 17(1), 1755 First author
2024
MetMiner: A user-friendly pipeline for large-scale plant metabolomics data analysis ↗
Wang, X., Liang, S., Yang, W., Yu, K., Liang, F., Zhao, B., Zhu, X., Zhou, C., Mur, L. A. J., Roberts, J. A., Zhang, J., & Zhang, X.
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 66(11), 2329-2345 First author
2025
A CRY1-HY5-MYB signaling cascade fine-tunes guard cell reactive oxygen species levels and triggers stomatal opening ↗
Chang, Y., Shi, M., Wang, X., Cheng, H., Zhang, J., Liu, H., Wu, H., Ou, X., Yu, K., Zhang, X., Day, B., Miao, C., Zhao, Y., & Jiang, K.
The Plant Cell, 37(4), koaf064 Co-first author
Software & open science
03 / TOOLSR / METABOLOMICS↗
MetMiner
A user-friendly pipeline for large-scale plant metabolomics.
R / SHINY↗tidymass_shiny
Shiny application development within the tidyMass team.
R / NETWORK ANALYSIS↗WGCNA-shinyApp
Interactive weighted gene co-expression network analysis.
GO / ACADEMIC WEBSITES↗Folio
A visual editor for academic and lab websites, with Markdown blogging and live previews.
RUST / NETWORK ANALYSIS↗rsWGCNA
A pure-Rust kernel for weighted gene co-expression network analysis, with multithreading and no system BLAS setup.
GO / VUE / RUST↗rsWGCNA Dashboard
A visual platform powered by rsWGCNA, with one-click or stepwise analysis, interactive charts and publication-ready exports.
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