Posts by Gilit

Read Dan Flomin and David’s new paper in JCB on using adaptive minimizer order to cut the memory size of Gerbil k-mer counter by 30-50%. The paper is included in a special issue in honor of M. Waterman’s 80th birthday.

Congratulations to Hagai who won a prize at the 25th Human Genome Meeting 2022 for his poster “Genotype imputation strategy for improving disease risk prediction on diverse ethnic groups”.

Congratulations to Omer for completing her MSc – and continuing to the PhD program! Omer’s PhD thesis will develop computational methods for healthcare, and she will be co-supervised by Prof. Uri Shalit of the Technion.

Congrats to Omer Noy, who won the 2021-2022 Celia and Marcus Maus Prize for MSc students in Computer Science.

Congrats to Nimrod who won the Youdim Family Prize for outstanding student in cancer research for the year 2022.

Prof. Ron Shamir won the ISCB 2022 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award. The award recognizes annually a senior member of the computational biology community who has made major contributions to the field of computational biology. Ron will give a keynote talk and receive the award at ISMB 2022 in Madison Wisconsin in July.

Congratulations to Nimrod who won the TAU Healthy Longevity Research Center scholarship for his research titled “Hematopoietic stem cell gene expression during aging at single cell resolution”.

Read the paper by Omer, Dan Coster, Maya and our clinical colleagues on early prediction of deterioration in hospitalized COVID-19 patients using machine learning.

Read the Bioinformatics note by Hagai and Nima describing the Domino active module discovery server.

Read Tom Hait’s paper in Nucleic Acids Research on discovering cell-type specific promoter-enhancer links across hundreds of cell types.