Lab news
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!
Read MoreAugust 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.…
Read MoreAug 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.…
Read MoreJune 21: SCAPP plasmid assembly algorithm published in Microbiome
Congratulations to David Pellow for the publication of the SCAPP algorithm. SCAPP, developed jointly with I. Mizrahi’s group, is a new tool for extraction and assembly of plasmids from metagenomic samples.
Read MoreAug. 21: Yael’s UHS-MSP paper accepted to ACM-BCB conference
The paper , by Yael Ben-Ari and colleagues, on utilizing universal hitting sets in the MSP algorithm, has been accepted to the ACM-BCB conference.
Read MoreMay 2021: Five group papers to be presented in ISMB/ECCB
Papers by Omer, Nimrod, David, Hagai and Dan Coster were accepted to ISMB/ECCB 2021. All will be presented as posters, and the first four in talks as well. See here for the details. Congratulations!
Read MoreApril 2021: Dan Coster wins the Celia and Marcus Maus Prize
Congratulations to Dan Coster who won The Celia and Marcus Maus Prize for MSc students in Computer Science, for the academic year 2020-2021.
Read MoreApril 21: Nimrod wins Dan David Scholarship
Congratulations to Nimrod Rappoport who won the Dan David Scholarship in molecular medicine.
Read MoreApril 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.
Read MoreMarch 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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