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Overview

Gunnar W. Klau is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Immunology, Ecology, and Hematology.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics, including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Gene Expression and Cancer Classification
  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

They have published extensively, with 41 publications contributing to their primary fields of study. Their frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 14 publications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 6, Genome Biology and Pattern Recognition Letters both with 2 each, and eLife with 1 publication.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gunnar W. Klau include:

  • "Haplotype threading: accurate polyploid phasing from long reads" (2020, Genome Biology)
  • "Single-cell transcriptomics defines heterogeneity of epicardial cells and fibroblasts within the infarcted murine heart" (2021, eLife)
  • "Using anticlustering to partition data sets into equivalent parts." (2020, Psychological Methods)
  • "A critical review of multi-output support vector regression" (2023, Pattern Recognition Letters)
  • "Haplotype-resolved assembly of a tetraploid potato genome using long reads and low-depth offspring data" (2024, Genome Biology)

Gunnar W. Klau collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Sven Schrinner (15 joint papers), Tobias Marschall (13), Rebecca Serra Mari (12), Philipp Spohr (10), and Björn Usadel (9).

Best Publications

  • Identifying functional modules in protein–protein interaction networks

    Marcus T. Dittrich;Gunnar W. Klau;Andreas Rosenwald;Thomas Dandekar

  • WhatsHap: Weighted Haplotype Assembly for Future-Generation Sequencing Reads

    Murray Patterson;Tobias Marschall;Nadia Pisanti;Leo van Iersel

  • WhatsHap: fast and accurate read-based phasing

    M. Martin;Patterson;S. Garg (Shilpa);S. Fischer

  • Computational pan-genomics: status, promises and challenges.

    Tobias Marschall;Manja Marz;Manja Marz;Thomas Abeel;Louis Dijkstra

  • An Algorithmic Framework for the Exact Solution of the Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree Problem

    Ivana Ljubić;René Weiskircher;Ulrich Pferschy;Gunnar W. Klau

  • BioNet: an R-Package for the functional analysis of biological networks

    Daniela Beisser;Gunnar W. Klau;Thomas Dandekar;Tobias Müller

  • Exact Algorithms for Cluster Editing: Evaluation and Experiments

    Sebastian Böcker;Sebastian Briesemeister;Gunnar W. Klau

  • A new graph-based method for pairwise global network alignment

    Gunnar W Klau

  • An integer linear programming approach for finding deregulated subgraphs in regulatory networks

    Christina Backes;Alexander Rurainski;Gunnar W. Klau;Oliver Müller

  • Ancient dispersal of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii from the Amazon rainforest

    Ferry Hagen;Paulo C. Ceresini;Itzhack Polacheck;Hansong Ma

  • Charge group partitioning in biomolecular simulation.

    Stefan Canzar;Mohammed El-Kebir;René Pool;Khaled M. Elbassioni

  • The Open Graph Drawing Framework (OGDF)

    Markus Chimani;Carsten Gutwenger;Michael Jünger;Gunnar W. Klau

  • Accurate multiple sequence-structure alignment of RNA sequences using combinatorial optimization

    Markus Bauer;Gunnar W Klau;Knut Reinert

  • Investigating human-computer optimization

    Stacey D. Scott;Neal Lesh;Gunnar W. Klau

  • CLEVER: clique-enumerating variant finder.

    Tobias Marschall;Ivan G. Costa;Stefan Canzar;Markus Bauer

  • Haplotype threading: accurate polyploid phasing from long reads.

    Sven D. Schrinner;Rebecca Serra Mari;Rebecca Serra Mari;Jana Ebler;Mikko Rautiainen;Mikko Rautiainen

  • Combining a Memetic Algorithm with Integer Programming to Solve the Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree Problem

    Gunnar W. Klau;Ivana Ljubic;Andreas Moser;Petra Mutzel

  • Human-guided tabu search

    Gunnar W. Klau;Neal Lesh;Joe Marks;Michael Mitzenmacher

  • Human-guided search

    Gunnar W. Klau;Neal Lesh;Joe Marks;Michael Mitzenmacher

  • Optimal Compaction of Orthogonal Grid Drawings

    Gunnar W. Klau;Petra Mutzel

  • Optimal robust non-unique probe selection using Integer Linear Programming

    Gunnar W. Klau;Sven Rahmann;Alexander Schliep;Martin Vingron

  • Charge group partitioning in biomolecular simulation

    Stefan Canzar;Mohammed El-Kebir;René Pool;Khaled Elbassioni

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra Mutzel
Petra Mutzel University of Bonn
Tobias Marschall
Tobias Marschall Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Knut Reinert
Knut Reinert Freie Universität Berlin
Leen Stougie
Leen Stougie Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Jaap Heringa
Jaap Heringa Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael Jünger
Michael Jünger University of Cologne
Lodewyk F. A. Wessels
Lodewyk F. A. Wessels Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Sebastian Böcker
Sebastian Böcker Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Björn Usadel
Björn Usadel Forschungszentrum Jülich
Thomas Dandekar
Thomas Dandekar University of Würzburg

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