Lab news

Hagai Levi, having completed his MSc, is entering the doctoral program. Like the MSc, the PhD is supervised jointly with Rani Elkon of the Medical school.

Roi Cohen will be joining the group as a research assistant. He will be working on ageing with Nimrod. Welcome Roi!

Read the new paper by David Pellow describing a new algorithm to classify bacterial vs. plasmidic sequences.

Read Hagai’s paper on BioRxiv about the pitfalls in network-based module detection algorithms, how to overcome them, and about DOMINO, a novel algorithm that performs very well on gene expression and GWAS data.    

Congratulations to Dvir Netanely, who submitted his PhD thesis titled  “Cancer subtype identification using large-scale omics data analysis”.  

Congratulations to Hagai Levi, who submitted and defended his MSc thesis titled “Analysis of network-based module discovery algorithms from the perspective of biological enrichment”.

Read the manuscript by Nimrod and Roy describing a new approach to module discovery in multi-omic data, allowing omic selection per module.

Read David’s new manuscript  with I. Mizrahi’s group about SCAPP, a new tool for extraction and assembly of plasmids from metagenomic samples.

The journal Infection just published Dan’s paper  showing that by using two CRP tests we improve the differential diagnosis between acute bacterial and viral infections. The study was done with our colleagues from the Sourasky Medical Center.

Read the BMC Bioinformatics paper describing Dvir’s software PROMO. PROMO is an interactive Matlab-based software for analyzing large clinical+omic datasets like TCGA.