Lab news

Kobi Perl, MD student, has done PhD research jointly in our lab and in Prof. Karen Avraham’s lab (Medicine). His thesis “Understanding of Developmental and Physiological Conditions of the Inner Ear using Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis” has now been approved and is available here. Congratulations Kobi!

Roy Safra, a senior Bioinformatics BSc student, has joined the group as a programmer. He will be working with Nimrod on multiomics analysis methods.

Read the new report by Gal describing a new method for prioritizing mutated genes as drivers in a cancer patient.

Congratulations to Ron Zeira who is now officially a postdoctoral student in the lab.

Welcome to Yael Ben-Ari who is joining our group as a master student.

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.