Lab news

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.

Read the preprint of David Pellow and Abhinav Dutta broadening the theory of syncmer and applying it to improve the long read mappers minimap and winnowmap.

Congratulations to Yael Ben-Ari, who completed her MSc degree! Yael’s thesis “Improving the efficiency of de Bruijn graph construction using compact universal hitting sets” is available here.

Read Dan Flomin and David’s new preprint on using adaptive minimizer order to cut the memory size of Gerbil k-mer counter by 30-50%.

A new online service enabling network-based active module discovery is now operational. The server, developed by Hagai and Nima, applies the DOMINO algorithm. See the manuscript.