Lab news

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.

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…