We bid farewell to two group members who are leaving us: Gaby Ecanow, who finished a very successful summer internship and is going back to continue her degree at MIT. Gaby worked on the Expander and greatly improved its visualizations. Roy Safra, who worked as a programmer in the group and is now continuing to the IT industry. Roy worked with Nimrod on multi-omic clustering, producing together a new algorithm that we shall continue to develop.

Read Nimrod's new publication in MSB revealing the inaccuracy of the log-rank test approximation on cancer data.

Read the PLoS One paper of Gal and Didi, co-authored with E. Ingelsson and E. Ashley of Stanford, on predicting adverse heart and kidney events from longitudinal paient data.

The lecture notes of Ron Shamir's course "Advanced topics in Graph Algorithms" have been translated to Chinese. See link. This is the fifteenth translation of the course, following Ukrainian, Indonesian, Russian, Estonian, Bulgarian, French, Czech, Swedish, Spanish, German, Dutch, Punjabi, Greek and Armenian.

Tom's new paper on inferring enchancer-promoter links in a cell-type specific manner is now available in BioRxiv. This is joint work with Dr. Rani Elkon. See also the website.

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.