Wencan Zhu

Postdoc at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, UK

About me

I am a mathematician/statistician and keen in data analysis. I’m currently postdoctoral researcher at LMB in cambridge, with a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Paris-Saclay, supervised by Céline Lévy-Leduc and Nils Ternès.

research interests

Publications

Zhu, W., Lévy-Leduc, C., Ternès, N. (2021)

Bioinformatics

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A variable selection approach for highly correlated predictors in high-dimensional genomic data


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Zhu, W., Lévy-Leduc, C., Ternès, N. (2023)

BMC Bioinformatics

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Identification of prognostic and predictive biomarkers in high-dimensional data with PPLasso


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Zhu, W., Adjakossa, E., Lévy-Leduc, C., Ternès, N. (2021)

Sign consistency of the generalized elastic net estimator.


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Zhu, W., Lévy-Leduc, C., Ternès, N. (2022)

Variable selection in high-dimensional logistic regression models using a whitening approach


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Code

Most of my public code is available on my github page

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WLasso: Whitening Lasso for variable selection

This is the package for the identification of prognostic biomarkers.


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PPLasso: Prognostic and predictive biomarker identification

This is the package for the identification of prognostic and predictive biomarkers.


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WLogit: Whitening logistic regression with regularization

This is the package for the identification of biomarkers in classification problems.


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