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London, Sydney
As seen in: ABC News (Australia), The Age, BioRxiv, Brisbane Times, WAtoday, Overland, Honi Soit, Gazette of Law & Journalism

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Alan Zheng is a Sydney-based writer with experience in print journalism. His writing has been featured in Overland, Justinian and the Gazette of Law and Journalism. He also edited the University of Sydney student newspaper, Honi Soit.

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Head of Campus Security was homophobic in previous job, tribunal finds - Honi Soit

Head of Campus Security was homophobic in previous job, tribunal finds - Honi Soit

Students are calling for the security chief's resignation

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USyd inter-college greyhound racing event draws backlash - Honi Soit

USyd inter-college greyhound racing event draws backlash - Honi Soit

An inter-collegiate event promoted by students from St Andrew's College and attended by students of St Paul's…

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Concerns notices and courtroom skirmishes: how defamation threats are suppressing student media

Concerns notices and courtroom skirmishes: how defamation threats are suppressing student media

But I have also witnessed student media falter against an all-too-familiar threat. Hard-hitting stories have …

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Concerns notices and courtroom skirmishes: how defamation threats are suppressing student media -...

But I have also witnessed student media falter against an all-too-familiar threat. Hard-hitting stories have …

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Court throws out student's "largely unintelligible" pleas to continue degree - Honi Soit

Court throws out student's "largely unintelligible" pleas to continue degree - Honi Soit

A former PhD student's last-ditch bid to continue her degree has been refused by the Supreme Court, bookendin…

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Fast and flexible minimizer digestion with digest

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By Alan Zheng, Ishmeal Lee, Vikram S. Shivakumar, Omar Ahmed
| BioRxiv
Abstract Minimizer digestion is an increasingly common component of bioinformatics tools, including tools for De Bruijn-Graph assembly and sequence classification. We describe a new open source tool and library to facilitate efficient digestion of genomic sequences. It can produce digests based on the related ideas of minimizers, modimizers or syncmers. Digest uses efficient data structures, scales well to many threads, and produces digests with expected spacings between digested elements.
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'An excuse for racism': Chinese international students are in limbo and they are angry

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By Alan Zheng, Carrie Wen
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
By Alan Zheng and Carrie Wen Posted February 03, 2020 13:28:55 When Karen showed up at Qingdao International Airport on Saturday afternoon for a flight to Australia, she found the airport in disarray. It was supposed to be a routine flight to Sydney to start a new year of university. Instead Karen, an international student from China's Shandong province, was barred from checking in. She was told to sit in the departure hall to wait but as evening fell she discovered her flight had been cancelled.
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Concerns notices and courtroom skirmishes: how defamation threats are suppressing student media

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By Alan Zheng
| Overland Verified
In Elif Batuman’s bildungsroman The Idiot, a young man with sideburns repeatedly tells the protagonist, Selin, that the Harvard student newspaper is his life. For much of this year, the last remaining weekly student newspaper in Australia has been mine. Over that time, student media has broken stories of national interest on data breaches, college hazing, student protests, and more.
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