Lab news

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.

Read the paper (with Itzik Mizrahi’s group, BGU) comparing plasmidomes across microbial environments.

Gal’s paper on Prodigy, an algorithm for ranking driver genes for an individual cancer patient, was published in Bioinformatics.

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!

Tom Hait passed the qualifying exam and his PhD proposal is now approved. Congratulations!  

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 Nimrod’s new publication in MSB revealing the inaccuracy of the log-rank test approximation on cancer data.

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.

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.