Lab news
September 2020: Congrats to Nimrod for CBRC award
Congratulations to Nimrod Rappoport who won the Zvi and Esther Weinstat Graduate Students Award on Cancer Research. His work was selected as an outstanding research project by the Cancer Biology Research Center at TAU.
Read MoreAugust 20: Welcome to Dan Flomin
We welcome Dan Flomin, CS MSc student, who is joining the group.
Read MoreJuly 2020: Hagai starts the PhD program
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.
Read MoreJune 2020: welcome to Roi
Roi Cohen will be joining the group as a research assistant. He will be working on ageing with Nimrod. Welcome Roi!
Read MoreApril 2020: PlasClass: a new plasmid classifier
Read the new paper by David Pellow describing a new algorithm to classify bacterial vs. plasmidic sequences.
Read MoreMarch 2020: Improved network-based module detection
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.
Read MoreJan 2020: congrats to Dvir!
Congratulations to Dvir Netanely, who submitted his PhD thesis titled “Cancer subtype identification using large-scale omics data analysis”.
Read MoreJan 2020: congrats to Hagai!
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 MoreFebruary 2020: Monet: A new multi-omic module discovery algorithm
Read the manuscript by Nimrod and Roy describing a new approach to module discovery in multi-omic data, allowing omic selection per module.
Read MoreJanuary 2020: Improved plasmid assembly from metagenomes
Read David’s new manuscript with I. Mizrahi’s group about SCAPP, a new tool for extraction and assembly of plasmids from metagenomic samples.
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