Lab news

Read the preprint with Ittai Shamir and Yaniv Assaf on clustering multilayered cytoarchitectonic surface-based data in the brain.

Read David and Lianrong’s paper with Yaron Orenstein’s group (BIU) and Bonnie Berger’s group (MIT) on how to use an old theory by Mykkeltveit and Knuth to expand minimizer orders to large values of k.

Yonatan and Nimrod’s manuscript on the INTEND algorithm for integrating gene expression and methylation data from different experiment has been posted in Biorxiv.

Lianrong’s paper on a 3-way classifier of contigs in metagenomic assembly graph was published in Bioinformatics.

Assaf Ben Shimon is joining the group as an MSc student. Welcome Assaf!  

Congrats to Hagai Levi, who passed the PhD Candidacy exam! Hagai’s research topic is adaptation of Polygenic Risk Scores across populations.

We welcome Tal Ben Yishay, who is joining the group as an MSc student. Tal finished a BSc in bioinformatics at TAU. His work will be on chromothrypsis, co-supervised by Uri Ben David (Medicine). Welcome Tal!

Lianrong’s paper on a 3-way classifier of contigs in metagenomic assembly graph has been accepted to ECCB 2022 and will appear in Bioinformatics.

Congrats to Dan Flomin, who completed his MSc studies! Dan’s thesis was recently published in JCB.

Read Dan Flomin and David’s new paper in JCB on using adaptive minimizer order to cut the memory size of Gerbil k-mer counter by 30-50%. The paper is included in a special issue in honor of M. Waterman’s 80th birthday.