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September 2021: DOMINO stars in an active module discovery benchmark

A new article by Lazareva et al. benchmarked eight active module identification algorithms on multiple real and randomized biological networks. The authors conclude that Hagai’s DOMINO algorithm was the only algorithm that produced more meaningful candidate disease modules on real than on random networks. Congrats Hagai!

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August 2021: NEMO stars in a recent cancer subtyping benchmark

A new article by Duan et al. conducted an extensive benchmark on ten algorithms for multi-omic clustering. The study used nine cancers and four omics and conducted multiple common and novel tests. It concluded that the NEMO algorithm developed by Nimrod, as well as SNF, performed well in all criteria, and recommended them for cancer subtyping.…

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Aug 2021: Igor Ulitsky wins the Blavatnik Award

Prof. Igor Ulitsky (Weizmann Institute) was selected as the 2020 Life Sciences Laureate of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel. He received the award in a recent ceremony. Igor did his PhD in Shamir group and is a leader in understanding the non-coding human genome. See here for a video on his award.…

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April 21: COVID-19 deterioration paper accepted to ICLR

Omer and Dan’s study on predicting deterioration in COVID-19 patients was accepted to the ICLR 2021 Workshop: Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics. The study is a collaboration with Maya from the group and the clinical partners I. Attar, S. Shenhar-Tsafraty, S. Berliner, G. Rahav and O. Rogowski.

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March 2021: Congrats to Dan Coster for CBRC award

Congratulations to Dan Coster who was awarded a prize of the Cancer Biology Research Center (CBRC) at TAU. The Grants Committee of CBRC selected Dan’s cancer prediction lecture as an outstanding research project, among projects presented at the CBRC virtual meeting series in the 2020 winter semester.

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