Lab news

Read Hagai’s paper in medRxiv (link) on the importance of imputation panel ethnicity when transferring a PRS across populations.

Tom’s paper on inferring silencers and enhancers using deep learning is available on Research Square (link).

Congratulations to Omer Noy, who won the Prof. Amnon and Mrs. Anat Ramati Shaashua fellowship in computer science!

Congratulations to Hagai, who won the Weinstat Memorial Graduate Award in Cancer Research!

Read the study (link) of Ella Ranon and Ella Goldschmidt and others on predicting if the antibiotic administered was appropriate.

Hagai’s study published in BMJ (link) on a breast cancer risk score for Ashkenazi women has been gaining attention. See here (link) and in Hebrew here (link)

The paper (link) by David and Lianrong with Yaron Orenstein’s group (BIU) and Bonnie Berger’s group (MIT) on using the theory of Mykkeltveit and Knuth to expand minimizer orders to large values of k has been published in Genome Research.

Read Hagai’s paper (link) on utilizing a polygenic risk score for breast cancer developed on European population to predict risk in Ashkenazi Jewish women. The main coauthors in this study were colleagues from TAU, the Hebrew University, Clalit Research Institute.

Yonatan and Nimrod’s manuscript on the INTEND algorithm for integrating gene expression and methylation data from different experiments has been published in NAR (link).

Read Nimrod’s paper (link), joint with Tanay and Fraser groups, on chromosomal conformations in early development.