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Carsten Wiuf is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Other subfields in which they have contributed include Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Mathematical Physics.

Their work covers a range of topics, predominantly Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, Genetic diversity and population structure, and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics. Additional areas of research include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods.

Carsten Wiuf has published research in several venues, with frequent appearances in arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Advances in Applied Probability, Genetics, and Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

Recent papers include:

  • Identification of Hidden Population Structure in Time-Scaled Phylogenies, 2020, Systematic Biology
  • Estimation of site frequency spectra from low-coverage sequencing data using stochastic EM reduces overfitting, runtime, and memory usage, 2022, Genetics
  • Stationary distributions of systems with discreteness-induced transitions, 2020, Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Parchment Glutamine Index (PQI): A novel method to estimate glutamine deamidation levels in parchment collagen obtained from low-quality MALDI-TOF data, 2023, Peer Community Journal
  • Estimating admixture pedigrees of recent hybrids without a contiguous reference genome, 2023, Molecular Ecology Resources

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Anders Albrechtsen
  • Chuang Xu
  • Genís Garcia-Erill
  • Linard Hoessly
  • Mads Christian Hansen

Best Publications

  • Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA

    Philip Francis Thomsen;Jos Kielgast;Lars L. Iversen;Carsten Wiuf

  • Estimating the size of the human interactome

    Michael P. H. Stumpf;Thomas Thorne;Eric de Silva;Ronald Stewart

  • Diverse Plant and Animal Genetic Records from Holocene and Pleistocene Sediments

    Eske Willerslev;Anders J. Hansen;Jonas Binladen;Tina B. Brand

  • Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

    Stefanie Widder;Rosalind J Allen;Thomas Pfeiffer;Thomas P Curtis

  • Gene Genealogies, Variation and Evolution: A Primer in Coalescent Theory

    Jotun Hein;Mikkel H. Schierup;Carsten Wiuf

  • Diagnostic and Prognostic MicroRNAs in Stage II Colon Cancer

    Troels Schepeler;Jørgen T. Reinert;Marie S. Ostenfeld;Lise L. Christensen

  • Development of a Hypoxia Gene Expression Classifier with Predictive Impact for Hypoxic Modification of Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer

    Kasper Toustrup;Brita Singers Sørensen;Marianne Nordsmark;Morten Busk

  • Long-term persistence of bacterial DNA.

    Eske Willerslev;Eske Willerslev;Anders J. Hansen;Regin Rønn;Tina B. Brand

  • Common variants at VRK2 and TCF4 conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Stacy Steinberg;Simone de Jong;Ole A. Andreassen;Thomas Werge

  • Statistical Evidence for Miscoding Lesions in Ancient DNA Templates

    Anders J. Hansen;Eske Willerslev;Carsten Wiuf;Tobias Mourier

  • Recombination as a Point Process along Sequences

    Carsten Wiuf;Jotun Hein

  • Gene expression classifier predicts for hypoxic modification of radiotherapy with nimorazole in squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck

    Kasper Toustrup;Brita Singers Sørensen;Pernille Lassen;Carsten Wiuf

  • Comprehensive Genome Methylation Analysis in Bladder Cancer: Identification and Validation of Novel Methylated Genes and Application of These as Urinary Tumor Markers

    Thomas Reinert;Charlotte Modin;Francisco Mansilla Castano;Philippe Lamy

  • Identification of endogenous retroviral reading frames in the human genome.

    Palle Villesen;Lars Aagaard;Carsten Wiuf;Finn Skou Pedersen

  • Recharacterization of ancient DNA miscoding lesions: insights in the era of sequencing-by-synthesis

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Jonas Binladen;Webb Miller;Carsten Wiuf

  • Genome-wide study of association and interaction with maternal cytomegalovirus infection suggests new schizophrenia loci

    A D Børglum;A D Børglum;A D Børglum;D Demontis;D Demontis;J Grove;J Grove;J Pallesen;J Pallesen

  • Model criticism based on likelihood-free inference, with an application to protein network evolution

    Oliver Ratmann;Christophe Andrieu;Carsten Wiuf;Sylvia Richardson

  • The Coalescent With Gene Conversion

    Carsten Wiuf;Jotun Hein

  • Assessing the Fidelity of Ancient DNA Sequences Amplified From Nuclear Genes

    Jonas Binladen;Carsten Wiuf;M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Michael Bunce

  • Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics: An Introduction

    Jotun Hein;Carsten Wiuf

Frequent Co-Authors

Torben F. Ørntoft
Torben F. Ørntoft Aarhus University
Claus L. Andersen
Claus L. Andersen Aarhus University Hospital
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Jotun Hein
Jotun Hein University of Oxford
Lars Bolund
Lars Bolund Aarhus University
Jens Overgaard
Jens Overgaard Aarhus University Hospital
Preben Bo Mortensen
Preben Bo Mortensen Aarhus University
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
Kai Wang
Kai Wang Hebei University

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