Algorithms in

Computational

Genomics

at TAU

We develop algorithms and tools for analysis ofgenomic and systems biology data. Areas include:
October 2023: Maya wins Safra Fellowship
Congratulations to Maya Metzger, who won the Safra Center undergraduate fellowship!
Maya has been working in the group on EMR analysis in parallel to her undergrad in bioinformatics.
October 2023: Feature ranking in clustering
Eran's manuscript describing a new algorithm for ranking features for clustering EMR data is available in medRxiv (link)
August 2023: On the importance of imputation panel
Read Hagai's paper in medRxiv (link) on the importance of imputation panel ethnicity when transferring a PRS across populations.
August 2023: Silencers manuscript is online
Tom's paper on inferring silencers and enhancers using deep learning is available on Research Square (link).
August 2023: Omer wins Shaashua fellowship
Congratulations to Omer Noy, who won the Prof. Amnon and Mrs. Anat Ramati Shaashua fellowship in computer science!
August 2023: Hagai wins Cancer fellowship
Congratulations to Hagai, who won the Weinstat Memorial Graduate Award in Cancer Research!
August 2023: antibiotic appropriateness study posted on medRxiv
Read the study (link) of Ella Ranon and Ella Goldschmidt and others on predicting if the antibiotic administered was appropriate.
August 2023: Paper on minimizer orders published in GR
The paper (link) by David and Lianrong with Yaron Orenstein's group (BIU) and Bonnie Berger's group (MIT) on using the theory of Mykkeltveit and Knuth to expand minimizer orders to large values of k has been published in Genome Research.
July 2023: A breast cancer PRS for Ashkenazi women
Read Hagai's paper (link) on utilizing a polygenic risk score for breast cancer developed on European population to predict risk in Ashkenazi Jewish women. The main coauthors in this study were colleagues from TAU, the Hebrew University, Clalit Research Institute.