Congratulations to Dvir, who won an excellence prize for his abstract in the 2nd Graduate Students Symposium on Cancer held by the DJERASSI-ELIAS Institute of Oncology at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine. The symposium was held in July 2017.

Roye's paper, describing a streaming de novo assembly graph construction algorithm, has just appeared in Bioinformatics.

Congratulations to Tom Hait, who was awarded the MSc degree, co-supervised by Rani Elkon and Ron Shamir.

Read the new paper in Bioinformatics by David, Yaron and colleagues from Carl Kingsford's group on improving the performance of minimizers and winnowing schemes.

Read Rami Eitan's paper on reconstructing cancer karyotypes from short read data on BioRxiv

Congratulations to Roye Rozov for being awarded the Deutsch Excellence Scholarship for PhD students in the School of Computer Science, TAU. The awarding ceremony will take place on Thursday May 18, at 15:15, in the Open Space Lab in the School of Computer Science.

Read the paper by Ron, Meirav and colleagues on complexity and algorithms for copy number evolution models - between two genomes, and for k genomes forming a tree phylogeny.

Read Adi's paper with colleagues from Talma Hendler's group showing that sleep deprivation leads to deterioration in the modularity of the brain.

Read Kobi Perl's paper on the connection between the transcriptome and proteome in non-proliferating tissues.

Didi Amar has left the group for a postdoc in Stanford. Didi has been a leader in the group for a long time - as a master, doctoral and postdoctoral student. We wish him great success in the next steps.