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Olivier Thas

University of Wollongong · AU
Area of research
Statistics and Probability · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research focused on Sample size determination and Computational biology, with related work in Estimator, Digital polymerase chain reaction, Pooling. Notable publications include 'Butyrate-producing Clostridium cluster XIVa species specifically colonize mucins in an in vitro gut model', 'The more, the merrier: heterotroph richness stimulates methanotrophic activity', and 'Probabilistic Index Models'.
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citations
2,573
works
82
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Recent publications

Blood collection tube and RNA purification method recommendations for extracellular RNA transcriptome profiling
Nature Communications 2025cited by 15position: middledoi
Flexible methods for uncertainty estimation of digital PCR data
iScience 2025cited by 3position: lastdoi
From ageing clocks to human digital twins in personalising healthcare through biological age analysis
npj Digital Medicine 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Polytect: an automatic clustering and labeling method for multicolor digital PCR data
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
Benchmarking digital PCR partition classification methods with empirical and simulated duplex data
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2024cited by 7position: lastdoi
Synergy detection: A practical guide to statistical assessment of potential drug combinations
Pharmaceutical Statistics 2024cited by 5position: lastdoi
Therapy response monitoring in blood plasma from esophageal adenocarcinoma patients using cell-free DNA methylation profiling
Scientific Reports 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
Digital PCR threshold robustness analysis and optimization using <i>dipcensR</i>
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
The winner’s curse under dependence: repairing empirical Bayes using convoluted densities
Biostatistics 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
Covariate‐adjusted generalized pairwise comparisons in small samples
Statistics in Medicine 2024cited by 1position: lastdoi
Large-scale benchmarking of circRNA detection tools reveals large differences in sensitivity but not in precision
Nature Methods 2023cited by 100position: middledoi
Digital PCR Partition Classification
Clinical Chemistry 2023cited by 23position: middledoi
Simple and flexible sign and rank-based methods for testing for differential abundance in microbiome studies
PLoS ONE 2023cited by 11position: lastdoi
Determining Tipping Points and Responses of Macroinvertebrate Traits to Abiotic Factors in Support of River Management
Biology 2023cited by 10position: lastdoi
Measuring DNA quality by digital PCR using probability calculations
Analytica Chimica Acta 2023cited by 7position: middledoi
Generalized pairwise comparisons for censored data: An overview
Biometrical Journal 2022cited by 16position: lastdoi
Individual reference intervals for personalised interpretation of clinical and metabolomics measurements
Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2022cited by 15position: lastdoi
Supplementation of a β-Mannanase Enzyme Improves Feed Efficiency in Palm Kernel Expeller Rich Swine Diets
Austin Journal of Nutrition & Metabolism 2022cited by 1position: lastdoi
Supplementation of a β-mannanase enzyme reduces post-weaning diarrhea and antibiotic use in piglets on an alternative diet with additional soybean meal
Porcine Health Management 2021cited by 33position: lastdoi
Seasonal Variation in Prevalence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Other Respiratory Pathogens in Peri-Weaned, Post-Weaned, and Fattening Pigs with Clinical Signs of Respiratory Diseases in Belgian and Dutch Pig Herds, Using a Tracheobronchial Swab Sampling Technique, and Their Associations with Local Weather Conditions
Pathogens 2021cited by 17position: lastdoi
Statistical detection of synergy: New methods and a comparative study
Pharmaceutical Statistics 2021cited by 6position: firstdoi
Graduate Education in Statistics and Data Science: The Why, When, Where, Who, and What
Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 2021cited by 5position: lastdoi
Development of a 3’:5’ digital PCR assay to determine horse mRNA integrity
Analytical Biochemistry 2021cited by 4position: middledoi
On the utility of RNA sample pooling to optimize cost and statistical power in RNA sequencing experiments
BMC Genomics 2020cited by 122position: lastdoi
SPsimSeq: semi-parametric simulation of bulk and single-cell RNA-sequencing data
Bioinformatics 2020cited by 64position: lastdoi
Sequence count data are poorly fit by the negative binomial distribution
PLoS ONE 2020cited by 43position: lastdoi
Correction to: On the utility of RNA sample pooling to optimize cost and statistical power in RNA sequencing experiments
BMC Genomics 2020cited by 26position: lastdoi
Unbiasedness and efficiency of non-parametric and UMVUE estimators of the probabilistic index and related statistics
Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2020cited by 16position: middledoi
SPECS: a non-parametric method to identify tissue-specific molecular features for unbalanced sample groups
BMC Bioinformatics 2020cited by 14position: middledoi
Model-based joint visualization of multiple compositional omics datasets
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 2020cited by 10position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Matthijs Vynck · University of Wollongong15 papers (2015–2025)Jo Vandesompele · Shanghai Cell Therapy Research Institute14 papers (2016–2025)Ward De Spiegelaere · University of Wollongong10 papers (2015–2025) · 9 papers (2015–2025)Jan De Neve · University of Wollongong9 papers (2013–2019)Peter Goethals · University of Antwerp8 papers (2013–2023)Lieven Clement · University of Wollongong8 papers (2012–2017)Frédéric Vangroenweghe · Iowa State University7 papers (2018–2022) · 6 papers (2015–2021)Yao Chen · Jiangsu University6 papers (2021–2025)J. C. W. Rayner · Australian Bureau of Statistics6 papers (2012–2020)Bie Verbist · University of Wollongong6 papers (2014–2024) · 5 papers (2019–2024)David Gleerup · University of Wollongong5 papers (2023–2025)Jean‐Pierre Ottoy · University of Wollongong4 papers (2012–2014) · 4 papers (2018–2019) · 4 papers (2018–2019) · 4 papers (2018–2020) · 3 papers (2013–2023)Wim Van Criekinge · Ghent University Hospital3 papers (2012–2013)