Lab news

Nimrod Rappoport’s PhD is now officially approved. Congratulations Dr. Rappoport!

Congratulations to Maya Metzger, who won the Safra Center undergraduate fellowship!Maya has been working in the group on EMR analysis in parallel to her undergrad in bioinformatics. 

Eran’s manuscript describing a new algorithm for ranking features for clustering EMR data is available in medRxiv (link)

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.