Posts by Gilit
June 21: SCAPP plasmid assembly algorithm published in Microbiome
Congratulations to David Pellow for the publication of the SCAPP algorithm. SCAPP, developed jointly with I. Mizrahi’s group, is a new tool for extraction and assembly of plasmids from metagenomic samples.
Read MoreAug. 21: Yael’s UHS-MSP paper accepted to ACM-BCB conference
The paper , by Yael Ben-Ari and colleagues, on utilizing universal hitting sets in the MSP algorithm, has been accepted to the ACM-BCB conference.
Read MoreMay 2021: Five group papers to be presented in ISMB/ECCB
Papers by Omer, Nimrod, David, Hagai and Dan Coster were accepted to ISMB/ECCB 2021. All will be presented as posters, and the first four in talks as well. See here for the details. Congratulations!
Read MoreApril 2021: Dan Coster wins the Celia and Marcus Maus Prize
Congratulations to Dan Coster who won The Celia and Marcus Maus Prize for MSc students in Computer Science, for the academic year 2020-2021.
Read MoreApril 21: Nimrod wins Dan David Scholarship
Congratulations to Nimrod Rappoport who won the Dan David Scholarship in molecular medicine.
Read MoreApril 21: COVID-19 deterioration paper accepted to ICLR
Omer and Dan’s study on predicting deterioration in COVID-19 patients was accepted to the ICLR 2021 Workshop: Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics. The study is a collaboration with Maya from the group and the clinical partners I. Attar, S. Shenhar-Tsafraty, S. Berliner, G. Rahav and O. Rogowski.
Read MoreMarch 2021: Congrats to Dan Coster for CBRC award
Congratulations to Dan Coster who was awarded a prize of the Cancer Biology Research Center (CBRC) at TAU. The Grants Committee of CBRC selected Dan’s cancer prediction lecture as an outstanding research project, among projects presented at the CBRC virtual meeting series in the 2020 winter semester.
Read MoreFebruary 2021: Melanoma cancer subtypes
Read Dvir’s paper revealing a new classification of melanomas into prognostic subgroups, which can be implemented using a very simple decision tree.
Read MoreJanuary 2021: DOMINO showcased in MSB
Read Hagai’s paper in Molecular Systems Biology on a new active module identification algorithm, including an extensive benchmark of leading algorithms for the task, and novel evaluation criteria.
Read MoreJanuary 21: Breast and prostate cancer risk prediction from EMRs
Read Dan Coster’s manuscript showing improved prediction of future breast and prostate cancer risk based on EMR data from routine checkups of healthy individuals.
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