A fundamental task in various disciplines of science, including biology, is to find underlying
causal relations and make use of them. Causal relations can be seen if interventions are …

Rapid progress in the development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies in
recent years has provided many valuable insights into complex biological systems, ranging …

16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene and other environmental sequencing techniques provide
snapshots of microbial communities, revealing phylogeny and the abundances of microbial …

<? xm-replace_text {Heading}?> Abstract Terpenoids (isoprenoids) represent the largest
and most diverse class of chemicals among the myriad compounds produced by plants …

Terpenoids comprise tens of thousands of small molecule natural products that are widely
distributed across all domains of life. Plants produce by far the largest array of terpenoids …

Motivation: Modern data acquisition based on high-throughput technology is often facing the
problem of missing data. Algorithms commonly used in the analysis of such large-scale data …

Isoprenoid biosynthesis is essential for all living organisms, and isoprenoids are also of
industrial and agricultural interest. All isoprenoids are derived from prenyl diphosphate …

The estimation of large covariance and precision matrices is fundamental in modern
multivariate analysis. However, problems arise from the statistical analysis of large panel …

Statistical Foundations of Data Science gives a thorough introduction to commonly used
statistical models, contemporary statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms …

Networks and network analysis are arguably one of the largest growth areas of the early
twenty-first century in the quantitative sciences. Despite roots in social network analysis …