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Zhen Cao

Chinese Academy of SciencesORCID 0000-0002-8120-9951Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cancer & tumor microenvironment· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Bin PaniD· 1 shared Bing Yan· 1 shared Chang Zhou· 1 shared G Zhang· 1 shared Kevin Xiaohu Liu· 1 shared Pingsheng LiuiD· 1 shared Qi ZhangiD· 1 shared Shasha LuiD· 1 shared

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Cancer BiologybioRxivPreprintJun 7, 2026

Nature-Inspired Nanoparticle Adiposomes Enable Targeted Delivery of Hydrophobic Drug for Anti-Cancer Treatment

Bin Pan, Zhen Cao, Zemin Li…·Pingsheng Liu

This paper develops adiposomes, a biocompatible nanoparticle platform for hydrophobic drug delivery, showing improved efficacy and reduced toxicity in cancer models.

DOI 10.64898/2026.06.01.729180

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BioinformaticsIEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewedAug 31, 2018

Probe Efficient Feature Representation of Gapped K-mer Frequency Vectors from Sequences using Deep Neural Networks

Zhen Cao, Shihua Zhang

The paper introduces gkm-DNN, a deep learning framework to improve feature representation from gapped k-mer frequency vectors for sequence-based predictions, demonstrating comparable performance to gkm-SVM.

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