Lab news
December 2019: Plasmidome distribution
Read the paper (with Itzik Mizrahi’s group, BGU) comparing plasmidomes across microbial environments.
Read MoreNovember 2019: Prodigy algorithm published
Gal’s paper on Prodigy, an algorithm for ranking driver genes for an individual cancer patient, was published in Bioinformatics.
Read MoreOctober 2019: Welcome to Hadar, Naama and Omer!
We welcome Hadar Amira-Haham, Naama Kadosh and Omer Noy who joined the group as MSc students and in one shot tilted the gender balance in the lab. They came from BSc in BIU, BGU and TAU, respectively. Welcome aboard!
Read MoreOctober 2019: Tom passes the qualifying exam
Tom Hait passed the qualifying exam and his PhD proposal is now approved. Congratulations!
Read MoreAug 19: Farewell to Gaby and Roy
We bid farewell to two group members who are leaving us: Gaby Ecanow, who finished a very successful summer internship and is going back to continue her degree at MIT. Gaby worked on the Expander and greatly improved its visualizations. Roy Safra, who worked as a programmer in the group and is now continuing to…
Read MoreAugust 2019: problems with the log-rank test
Read Nimrod’s new publication in MSB revealing the inaccuracy of the log-rank test approximation on cancer data.
Read MoreAugust 2019: personalized prediction of heart and kidney events
Read the PLoS One paper of Gal and Didi, co-authored with E. Ingelsson and E. Ashley of Stanford, on predicting adverse heart and kidney events from longitudinal paient data.
Read MoreJuly 2019: ATGA course translated to Chinese
The lecture notes of Ron Shamir’s course “Advanced topics in Graph Algorithms” have been translated to Chinese. See link. This is the fifteenth translation of the course, following Ukrainian, Indonesian, Russian, Estonian, Bulgarian, French, Czech, Swedish, Spanish, German, Dutch, Punjabi, Greek and Armenian.
Read MoreJuly 2019: detection of cell-type specific enhancer-promoter links
Tom’s new paper on inferring enchancer-promoter links in a cell-type specific manner is now available in BioRxiv. This is joint work with Dr. Rani Elkon. See also the website.
Read MoreCongratulations to Gal!
Congrats to Gal Dinstag, who completed his MSc thesis on personalized prioritization of driver genes in cancer.
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