About
Dr. Tommy Au, PhD(CUHK), MB(ASCPi)CM, FIBMS(UK)
Molecular Pathology Technical Supervisor, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
Honorary Research Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research interests
Molecular pathology of blood and breast/ovarian cancers
Next/third-generation sequencing-based diagnostic test development, all the way from clinical specimens to bioinformatics pipeline to clinical reports
Microbial genomics (edible mushrooms and food-borne bacterial pathogens)
Professional profiles
Bioinformatics software
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)
INSurVeyor - Detect insertions from short read sequencing data (Rajaby et al, 2023 Nature Communications)