Lab news

Read the BioRxiv preprint  of Idan Nurick and Rani Elkon on the interplay between 3D chromatin structure, gene expression and stress, based on a large-scale meta-analysis that integrated Hi-C data from thirteen different cell lines and dozens of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq datasets.

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

Read Ron Zeira’s Bioinformatics paper on Sorting cancer karyotypes by DCJs, duplications and deletions using integer linear programming.

Tom Hait’s new method for linking enhancers to the promoters regulated by them has been published in Genome Biology. See also the website.      

Congratulations to Nimrod Rappoport, who passed the qualifying exam for the direct PhD track! Nimrod will do his PhD research jointly with Amos Tanay’s group at WIS.

The Frontiers in Plant Science paper describes a resource where candidate genes for large-scale functional annotations are integrated across multiple plant species. The resource was developed by Oren Tzfadia and other colleagues and is based on our MORPH functional gene prioritization tool.

See ​here for details.

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

The Adeptus web discovery and analysis tool based on expression and mutation data from many diseases was published in Bioinformatics. Adeptus was developed by Didi and Amir, and is available here.

Read the new paper  by Adi and Talma Hendler’s group on the manifestations (in resting state fMRI) of the lingering effects of anger, and their relation to traumatic stress symptoms.