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.

Roye Rozov's new paper "Faucet: streaming de novo assembly graph construction" was accepted to RECOMB-seq 2017 and will be presented in Hong Kong in May.

David Pellow's paper on improving the performance of minimizers, with Y. Oresntein and C. Kingsford's team, has been accepted to ISMB 2017 and will be presented in Prague in July.