Dr. Chun Hang Au, HCert(HKU), BSc(CUHK), PhD(CUHK), Reg. MLT(HK) Part II, MB(ASCPⁱ)^CM, FIBMS(UK)

Research Officer

Molecular Pathology Division, Department of Pathology

Medical Physics and Research Department

Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital

Happy Valley

Hong Kong

Research interests:

1. Molecular pathology of blood and breast/ovarian cancers
2. Next/third-generation sequencing-based diagnostic test development, including bioinformatics pipeline
3. Microbial genomics (edible mushrooms and food-borne bacterial pathogens)

Professional profiles:

• CV (Linkedin)
• Publications (Google Scholar Profile)

Bioinformatics tools:

• ITDseek - Detect FLT3 internal tandem duplication (ITD) from amplicon NGS alignments (Au et al, 2016 Diagnostic Pathology)
• HomopolymerQZ - Call variants in homopolymer loci from 454 pyrosequencing data (Kwong et al, 2016 Journal of Molecular Diagnostics)
• INDELseek - Detect complex indels from NGS alignments (Au et al, 2017 BMC Genomics)
• BAMClipper - Soft-clip amplicon primer sequence from NGS alignments (Au et al, 2017 Scientific Reports)