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Othman Soufan
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
2,945 Points

Contributions by role

Author 235
Preprint Author 35
Reviewer 70
Editor 2,605

Contributions by subject area

Algorithms and Analysis of Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Toxicology
Molecular Biology
Plant Science
Environmental Contamination and Remediation
Mathematical Biology
Statistics
Network Science and Online Social Networks
Software Engineering
Computer Vision
Computer Education
Data Science
Neural Networks
Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Autonomous Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Multimedia
Optimization Theory and Computation
Social Computing
Emerging Technologies
Programming Languages
Human-Computer Interaction
Natural Language and Speech
Robotics

Othman Soufan

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Assistant Professor, Alley Heaps Associate, Computer Science Department, St. Francis Xavier University. The Soufan Lab aims to advance life sciences by developing innovative methods, systems and resources for targeted knowledge discovery from biological data.

Algorithms & Analysis of Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Computational Biology Data Mining & Machine Learning

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ Computer Science

Past or current institution affiliations

McGill University

Work details

Assistant Professor

Sulaiman Alrajhi University
ended - December 2028
School of Business
Soufan Lab aims to advance life sciences by developing innovative methods, systems and resources for targeted knowledge discovery from biological data.

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Preprints 1
  • Edited 12
  • Reviewed 1
October 29, 2019
T1000: a reduced gene set prioritized for toxicogenomic studies
Othman Soufan, Jessica Ewald, Charles Viau, Doug Crump, Markus Hecker, Niladri Basu, Jianguo Xia
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7975 PubMed 31681519
November 6, 2017
DANNP: an efficient artificial neural network pruning tool
Mona Alshahrani, Othman Soufan, Arturo Magana-Mora, Vladimir B. Bajic
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.137
July 3, 2019 - Version: 1
T1000: A reduced toxicogenomics gene set for improved decision making
Othman Soufan, Jessica Ewald, Charles Viau, Doug Crump, Markus Hecker, Niladri Basu, Jianguo Xia
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27839v1

Academic Editor on

August 5, 2025
Aligning to the teacher: multilevel feature-aligned knowledge distillation
Yang Zhang, Pan He, Chuanyun Xu, Jingyan Pang, Xiao Wang, Xinghai Yuan, Pengfei Lv, Gang Li
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3075
August 5, 2025
Text-guided RGB-P grasp generation
Van Duc Vu, Van Thiep Nguyen, Nam Hai Pham, Dinh-Cuong Hoang, Phan Xuan Tan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3060
June 30, 2025
Deep context-attentive transformer transfer learning for financial forecasting
Ling Feng, Ananta Sinchai
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2983
November 4, 2022
Feature selection enhancement and feature space visualization for speech-based emotion recognition
Sofia Kanwal, Sohail Asghar, Hazrat Ali
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1091
January 5, 2022
Improving bioinformatics software quality through incorporation of software engineering practices
Adeeb Noor
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.839
May 4, 2021
Multi-step rainfall forecasting using deep learning approach
Sanam Narejo, Muhammad Moazzam Jawaid, Shahnawaz Talpur, Rizwan Baloch, Eros Gian Alessandro Pasero
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.514
April 27, 2021
Histo-CADx: duo cascaded fusion stages for breast cancer diagnosis from histopathological images
Omneya Attallah, Fatma Anwar, Nagia M. Ghanem, Mohamed A. Ismail
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.493
April 7, 2021
Entropy based C4.5-SHO algorithm with information gain optimization in data mining
G Sekhar Reddy, Suneetha Chittineni
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.424
March 10, 2021
An efficient approach for low latency processing in stream data
Nirav Bhatt, Amit Thakkar
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.426
February 18, 2021
Application and evaluation of knowledge graph embeddings in biomedical data
Mona Alshahrani, Maha A. Thafar, Magbubah Essack
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.341
February 9, 2021
Comparison of machine learning and deep learning techniques in promoter prediction across diverse species
Nikita Bhandari, Satyajeet Khare, Rahee Walambe, Ketan Kotecha
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.365
January 28, 2021
MKL-GRNI: A parallel multiple kernel learning approach for supervised inference of large-scale gene regulatory networks
Nisar Wani, Khalid Raza
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.363

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

March 18, 2019
Integrated bioinformatics analysis of As, Au, Cd, Pb and Cu heavy metal responsive marker genes through Arabidopsis thaliana GEO datasets
Chao Niu, Min Jiang, Na Li, Jianguo Cao, Meifang Hou, Di-an Ni, Zhaoqing Chu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6495 PubMed 30918749