Congrats to Gal Dinstag, who completed his MSc thesis on personalized prioritization of driver genes in cancer.

Congratulations to Dan Maor, who completed his MSc thesis on a heuristic for rapid RNA sequence and structure alignment.

Nimrod Rappoport passed the qualifying exam and his PhD proposal is now approved. Congratulations!

A new paper on the Expander one-stop-shop software for expression analysis was published in JMB. EXPANDER has been continuously developed since 2003, having to date over 18,000 downloads and 540 citations. The new version supports ChIP-seq analysis and improved network-based analysis of expression data. Expander recent developments have been led by Tom A. Hait, the lead author of the paper.

Congrats to Ron Zeira, whose review on genome rearrangements with single and multiple gene copies was published as a chapter in a new book.

Congratulations to Nimrod Rappoport who won the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) fellowship for excellent PhD students in Data Sciences. The PBC is part of the Council for Higher Education (CHE), the official authority for higher education in Israel. The PBC is responsible for funding the Israeli system of higher education. The new fellowships program awards up to 10 fellowships annually to excellent PhD students all over Israel whose research is in data sciences.

Welcome to Gabrielle (Gaby) Ecanow, who joined the group as a summer student as part of the MISTI-MIT-Israel program. She will be guided by Tom and work on gene expression and regulation. We wish her a fun and fruitful summer!

A paper describing Dvir's software PROMO is now available on bioRxiv. PROMO is an interactive Matlab-based software for analyzing large clinical+omic datasets like TCGA.

Congratulations to Lianrong Pu, who won the "ACM China Excellent PhD Thesis" award! The award will be given in the ACM Turing Conference hold in China, Chengdu, on May 17th-18th 2019.

Congratulations to Lianrong Pu who won the China Israel postdoctoral fellowship!