Lab news

Congratulations to Gal Dinstag, who was awarded the Eran Cohen memorial award for one of the best posters in the 20th Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium (IBS2018). Gal won the prize for his work “Personalized prioritization of cancer driver mutations”.

The lecture notes of Ron Shamir’s course “Advanced topics in Graph Algorithms” have been translated to Greek. See link. This is the thirteenth translation of the course, following Ukrainian, Indonesian, Russian, Estonian, Bulgarian, French, Czech, Swedish, Spanish, German, Dutch and Punjabi.

NEMO is a new clustering algorithm developed by Nimrod for multi-omic data. It can handle missing data without imputation and is fast and simple. In extensive tests on ten cancer datasets we show its advantage over the current state of the art.

The lecture notes of Ron Shamir’s course “Advanced topics in Graph Algorithms” have been translated to Punjabi. See link. This is the twelfth translation of the course, following Ukrainian, Indonesian, Russian, Estonian, Bulgarian, French, Czech, Swedish, Spanish, German and Dutch.

Our new paper  with Ting Chen (Tsinghua) and colleagues describes a new method for measuring microbiome similarity and identifying individuals by their microbiomes.

Read Idan’s paper jointly with Rani Elkon on the interplay between 3D chromatin organization and gene expression programs under basal and stress conditions.

Nimrod’s review and extensive benchmark on multi-omic clustering algorithms​ is now online.

Congratulations to Ron Zeira who defended his PhD thesis. Right after the defense, in complete surprise, he proposed to his girlfriend Hadar who attended the talk. Congratulations to the newly engaged couple!

Congrats to David Pellow, who passed the PhD thesis proposal exam and advanced to phase B of the doctoral studies.

Read the manuscript by Ron Zeira reviewing some central models and results in genome rearrangement analysis, with an emphasis on multiple copies and cancer.