Petri Törönen

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Petri Törönen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Petri Törönen has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Petri Törönen's work include Gene expression and cancer classification (20 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (17 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (9 papers). Petri Törönen is often cited by papers focused on Gene expression and cancer classification (20 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (17 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (9 papers). Petri Törönen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United Kingdom and Estonia. Petri Törönen's co-authors include Liisa Holm, Eero Ċastrén, Garry Wong, Alan Medlar, Mikko Kolehmainen, Marco Salgado, Samuel Kaski, Jarkko Venna, Janne Nikkilä and E. Tapio Palva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and FEBS Letters.

In The Last Decade

Petri Törönen

38 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Petri Törönen Finland	19	1.5k	543	207	189	153	40	2.3k
Guilherme P. Telles Brazil	14	997 0.7×	397 0.7×	194 0.9×	159 0.8×	136 0.9×	36	2.3k
Seiya Imoto Japan	13	1.7k 1.2×	436 0.8×	128 0.6×	259 1.4×	132 0.9×	21	2.8k
Jia‐Ming Chang Taiwan	28	2.0k 1.3×	556 1.0×	185 0.9×	303 1.6×	103 0.7×	78	3.1k
E. Michael Gertz United States	18	1.5k 1.0×	421 0.8×	259 1.3×	453 2.4×	90 0.6×	42	2.7k
Edward C. Uberbacher United States	23	1.9k 1.3×	320 0.6×	329 1.6×	209 1.1×	123 0.8×	58	2.7k
Brigitte Boeckmann Switzerland	7	2.6k 1.8×	513 0.9×	229 1.1×	361 1.9×	123 0.8×	7	3.3k
Xuan Li China	26	1.1k 0.7×	746 1.4×	83 0.4×	145 0.8×	61 0.4×	138	2.4k
Mónica Chagoyen Spain	21	1.5k 1.0×	291 0.5×	99 0.5×	151 0.8×	70 0.5×	56	2.2k
Alberto Paccanaro United Kingdom	21	1.9k 1.3×	232 0.4×	160 0.8×	196 1.0×	234 1.5×	45	2.6k
Peter Woolf United States	19	1.7k 1.1×	526 1.0×	75 0.4×	195 1.0×	83 0.5×	41	2.8k

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Törönen, Petri, Laura Renkonen‐Sinisalo, Anna Lepistö, et al.. (2025). Genome-wide DNA methylation profiles of colorectal tumors in Lynch syndrome and familial adenomatous polyposis. Clinical Epigenetics. 17(1). 137–137.

Törönen, Petri, Kirsi Pylvänäinen, Liisa Holm, et al.. (2024). Mitotic abnormalities precede microsatellite instability in lynch syndrome-associated colorectal tumourigenesis. EBioMedicine. 103. 105111–105111. 4 indexed citations

Mishra, Pashupati P., Ismo Hänninen, Emma Raitoharju, et al.. (2020). Epigenome-450K-wide methylation signatures of active cigarette smoking: The Young Finns Study. Bioscience Reports. 40(7). 10 indexed citations

Törönen, Petri, Alan Medlar, & Liisa Holm. (2018). PANNZER2: a rapid functional annotation web server. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(W1). W84–W88. 318 indexed citations

Mishra, Pashupati P., Alan Medlar, Liisa Holm, & Petri Törönen. (2016). Robust multi-group gene set analysis with few replicates. BMC Bioinformatics. 17(1). 526–526. 4 indexed citations

Kumar, Ajay, Liisa Holm, & Petri Törönen. (2013). GOParGenPy: a high throughput method to generate Gene Ontology data matrices. BMC Bioinformatics. 14(1). 242–242. 4 indexed citations

Nykyri, Johanna, Outi Niemi, Patrik Koskinen, et al.. (2012). Revised Phylogeny and Novel Horizontally Acquired Virulence Determinants of the Model Soft Rot Phytopathogen Pectobacterium wasabiae SCC3193. PLoS Pathogens. 8(11). e1003013–e1003013. 90 indexed citations

Pehkonen, Petri, Garry Wong, & Petri Törönen. (2009). Heuristic Bayesian Segmentation for Discovery of Coexpressed Genes within Genomic Regions. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 7(1). 37–49. 1 indexed citations

Törönen, Petri, Petri Pehkonen, & Liisa Holm. (2009). Generation of Gene Ontology benchmark datasets with various types of positive signal. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(1). 319–319. 4 indexed citations

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Törönen, Petri, Pauli J. Ojala, Pekka Marttinen, & Liisa Holm. (2009). Robust extraction of functional signals from gene set analysis using a generalized threshold free scoring function. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(1). 307–307. 28 indexed citations

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Tolvanen, Martti, Pauli J. Ojala, Petri Törönen, et al.. (2008). Interspliced transcription chimeras: Neglected pathological mechanism infiltrating gene accession queries?. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 42(2). 382–389. 3 indexed citations

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Kankainen, Matti, Günter Brader, Petri Törönen, E. Tapio Palva, & Liisa Holm. (2006). Identifying functional gene sets from hierarchically clustered expression data: map of abiotic stress regulated genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(18). e124–e124. 12 indexed citations

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Kankainen, Matti, et al.. (2006). POXO: a web-enabled tool series to discover transcription factor binding sites. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(Web Server). W534–W540. 9 indexed citations

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Pehkonen, Petri, Garry Wong, & Petri Törönen. (2005). Theme discovery from gene lists for identification and viewing of multiple functional groups. BMC Bioinformatics. 6(1). 162–162. 43 indexed citations

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Knuuttila, Juha E. A., Petri Törönen, & Eero Ċastrén. (2004). Effects of Antidepressant Drug Imipramine on Gene Expression in Rat Prefrontal Cortex. Neurochemical Research. 29(6). 1235–1244. 18 indexed citations

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Törönen, Petri. (2004). Selection of informative clusters from hierarchical cluster tree with gene classes. BMC Bioinformatics. 5(1). 32–32. 31 indexed citations

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Kaski, Samuel, Janne Nikkilä, Merja Oja, et al.. (2003). Trustworthiness and metrics in visualizing similarity of gene expression. BMC Bioinformatics. 4(1). 48–48. 97 indexed citations

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Marvanová, Markéta, Petri Törönen, Markus Storvik, et al.. (2002). Synexpression analysis of ESTs in the rat brain reveals distinct patterns and potential drug targets. Molecular Brain Research. 104(2). 176–183. 4 indexed citations

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Törönen, Petri, A. Linden, Outi Kontkanen, et al.. (2002). Expression Profiling to Understand Actions of NMDA/Glutamate Receptor Antagonists in Rat Brain. Neurochemical Research. 27(10). 1209–1220. 9 indexed citations

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Törönen, Petri, Mikko Kolehmainen, Garry Wong, & Eero Ċastrén. (1999). Analysis of gene expression data using self‐organizing maps. FEBS Letters. 451(2). 142–146. 369 indexed citations

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