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Calculating the path of cancer, ScienceDaily, October 4, 2021

The big problem of small data: A new approach, ScienceDaily, October 18, 2018

Publications [Click here to see my Google Scholar profile.]

Quantitative Biology / Machine Learning

1. Inference and visualization of complex genotype-phenotype maps with gpmap-tools, C Marti-Gomez, J Zhou, WC Chen, JB Kinney, DM McCandlish, bioRxiv 2025.03.09.642267 (2025)

2. Density estimation for ordinal biological sequences and its applications, WC Chen, J Zhou, DM McCandlish, Physical Review E 110, 044408 (2024)

3. Higher-order epistasis and phenotypic prediction, J Zhou, MS Wong, WC Chen, AR Krainer, JB Kinney, DM McCandlish, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119, e2204233119 (2022)

4. Field-theoretic density estimation for biological sequence space with applications to 5' splice site diversity and aneuploidy in cancer, WC Chen, J Zhou, JM Sheltzer, JB Kinney, DM McCandlish, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 118, e2025782118 (2021)

5.  Density estimation on small data sets, WC Chen, A Tareen, JB Kinney, Physical Review Letters 121, 160605 (2018)

Nuclear Physics / Neutron Stars

1.  Analytic insights on the information content of new observables, WC Chen, J Piekarewicz, Physical Review C 102, 042801 (2020) Rapid Communication

2.  Nuclear charge radii: density functional theory meets Bayesian neural networks, R Utama, WC Chen, J Piekarewicz, Journal of Physics G 43, 114002 (2016)

3.  Compactness of neutron stars, WC Chen, J Piekarewicz, Physical Review Letters 115, 161101 (2015)

4.  Searching for isovector signatures in the neutron-rich oxygen and calcium isotopes, WC Chen, J Piekarewicz, Physics Letters B 748, 284 (2015)

5.  Information and statistics: a new paradigm in theoretical nuclear physics, J Piekarewicz, WC Chen, FJ Fattoyev, Journal of Physics G 42, 034018 (2015)

6.  Building relativistic mean field models for finite nuclei and neutron stars, WC Chen, J Piekarewicz, Physical Review C 90, 044305 (2014) Editors' Suggestion

7.  Relativistic mean field plus exact pairing approach to open shell nuclei, WC Chen, J Piekarewicz, A Volya, Physical Review C 89, 014321 (2014)

8.  Giant monopole energies from a constrained relativistic mean-field approach, WC Chen, J Piekarewicz, M Centelles, Physical Review C 88, 024319 (2013)

My Dissertation

Relativistic Mean Field Models for Finite Nuclei and Neutron Stars, Wei-Chia Chen, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (2015)