Lab news
Sept. 2017: An extensive enhancer promoter map and algorithm
Read Tom and Didi’s recent paper on BioRxiv describing the FOCS algorithms for enhancer-promoter linking, and an extensive map of more than 300,000 links based on vast ENCODE, Roadmap, Fantom and GroSeq data.
Read MoreSept. 2017: Welcome to Dan Coster
We welcome Dan Coster, who is joining the group as an MSc student. Dan is a student in the Lautman program and will be working on precision medicine.
Read MoreAugust 2017: Copy number transformation paper published
Ron and Meirav’s paper giving a linear time algorithm for copy number transformation was published in JCB.
Read MoreAugust 2017: PROMO website is up
The PROMO tool is now available for download by beta users here. Promo, developed by Dvir and Neta, streamlines analysis of large multi-omic datasets in cancer.
Read MoreAugust 2017: SCREEN replicability paper published
Didi’s paper (with Dani Yekutieli) proposing new methods to control the FDR when analyzing together multiple studies appeared in PLoS Comp. Bio.
Read MoreAug. 2017: Dvir Netanely wins a prize in the Djerassi symposium
Congratulations to Dvir, who won an excellence prize for his abstract in the 2nd Graduate Students Symposium on Cancer held by the DJERASSI-ELIAS Institute of Oncology at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine. The symposium was held in July 2017.
Read MoreJuly 2017: Faucet paper published
Roye’s paper, describing a streaming de novo assembly graph construction algorithm, has just appeared in Bioinformatics.
Read MoreJuly 2017: Congratulations to Tom Hait!
Congratulations to Tom Hait, who was awarded the MSc degree, co-supervised by Rani Elkon and Ron Shamir.
Read MoreMay 2017: Roye Rozov wins the Deutsch Excellence Scholarship
Congratulations to Roye Rozov for being awarded the Deutsch Excellence Scholarship for PhD students in the School of Computer Science, TAU. The awarding ceremony will take place on Thursday May 18, at 15:15, in the Open Space Lab in the School of Computer Science.
Read MoreMay 2017: Copy number evolution paper published
Read the paper by Ron, Meirav and colleagues on complexity and algorithms for copy number evolution models – between two genomes, and for k genomes forming a tree phylogeny.
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