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Thomas Abeel

Associate Professor at TU Delft - Visiting Scientist at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Verified email at broadinstitute.org
Cited by 13156

Robust biomarker identification for cancer diagnosis with ensemble feature selection methods

T Abeel, T Helleputte, Y Van de Peer, P Dupont… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Biomarker discovery is an important topic in biomedical applications of
computational biology, including applications such as gene and SNP selection from high-dimensional …

[HTML][HTML] Pilon: an integrated tool for comprehensive microbial variant detection and genome assembly improvement

BJ Walker, T Abeel, T Shea, M Priest, A Abouelliel… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Advances in modern sequencing technologies allow us to generate sufficient data to analyze
hundreds of bacterial genomes from a single machine in a single day. This potential for …

Robust feature selection using ensemble feature selection techniques

Y Saeys, T Abeel, Y Van de Peer - … 15-19, 2008, Proceedings, Part II 19, 2008 - Springer
Robustness or stability of feature selection techniques is a topic of recent interest, and is an
important issue when selected feature subsets are subsequently analysed by domain …

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulatory network and hypoxia

…, A Gomes, T Rustad, G Dolganov, I Glotova, T Abeel… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
We have taken the first steps towards a complete reconstruction of the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis regulatory network based on ChIP-Seq and combined this reconstruction with system-…

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis over Four Decades: Whole Genome Sequencing and Dating Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

KA Cohen, T Abeel, A Manson McGuire… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The continued advance of antibiotic resistance threatens the treatment and
control of many infectious diseases. This is exemplified by the largest global outbreak of …

Genomic analysis of globally diverse Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains provides insights into the emergence and spread of multidrug resistance

AL Manson, KA Cohen, T Abeel, CA Desjardins… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), caused by drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis, is an increasingly serious problem worldwide. Here we examined a data set …

Generic eukaryotic core promoter prediction using structural features of DNA

T Abeel, Y Saeys, E Bonnet, P Rouzé… - Genome …, 2008 - genome.cshlp.org
Despite many recent efforts, in silico identification of promoter regions is still in its infancy.
However, the accurate identification and delineation of promoter regions is important for …

ANGUSTIFOLIA3 Binds to SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes to Regulate Transcription during Arabidopsis Leaf Development

…, M Andriankaja, S De Bodt, T Abeel… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The transcriptional coactivator ANGUSTIFOLIA3 (AN3) stimulates cell proliferation during
Arabidopsis thaliana leaf development, but the molecular mechanism is largely unknown. Here…

[PDF][PDF] Java-ml: A machine learning library

T Abeel, Y Van de Peer, Y Saeys - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2009 - jmlr.org
Java-ML is a collection of machine learning and data mining algorithms, which aims to be a
readily usable and easily extensible API for both software developers and research scientists…

Genomic and functional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains implicate ald in D-cycloserine resistance

CA Desjardins, KA Cohen, V Munsamy, T Abeel… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A more complete understanding of the genetic basis of drug resistance in Mycobacterium
tuberculosis is critical for prompt diagnosis and optimal treatment, particularly for toxic second-…