A new paper titled "Evaluation of novel computational methods to identify RNA-binding protein footprints from structural data" is now published in RNA.

A new paper titled "Mapping the sclerostin–LRP4 binding interface identifies critical interaction hotspots in loops 1 and 3 of sclerostin" is now published in FEBS letters.

Jonathan presented his research at ECCB on developing a deep learning model to predict gene expression levels based on promoter sequences.

Very proud to present our work on "Generating, modeling and evaluating a large-scale set of CRISPR/Cas9 off-target sites with bulges" published in NAR. In this study, Ofir Yaish generated the most comprehensive dataset of CRISPR off-targets with bulges.

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A new paper titled "Efficient minimizer orders for large values of k using minimum decycling sets" is now published in Genome Research.

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A new paper titled "An overview on nucleic-acid G-quadruplex prediction: from rule-based methods to deep neural networks" is now published in Briefings in Bioinformatics.​

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Congratulations to Maor Turner and Ori Feldman for receiving the Dean's Honors during their M.Sc degree.

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Hagar Chen, Bioinformatics M.Sc. student​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Shaked's paper titled "Predicting the pathogenicity of bacterial genomes using widely spread protein families" is now published in BMC Bioinformatics

We are proud to announce that Prof. Yaron Orenstein has been awarded the 2025 Rector's Award for Scientific Innovation by Bar-Ilan University.

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Read the full article here and watch a video presenting his research here.

Congratulations to Reut Moshe for being awarded the Teva bio-innovation fellowship.

A new paper titled "Deep neural networks for predicting the affinity landscape of protein-protein interactions" is now published in iScience.

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Happy to share our work with Roee Amit lab, published in Nature Communications, on the design of universal promoters for boosting gene expression by a mixed model of a convolutional neural network and a motif additive model trained on high-throughput expression data

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Noam Shimshoviz, Life Science Ph.D. student

Danielle Shrem, Computer Science M.Sc. student

Jonathan Mandl, Computer Science M.Sc. student

Ido Tziony, Computer Science M.Sc. student​​​​

Congratulations to Ofir Yaish for receiving the Dean's Honors in recognition of his achievement during his Ph.D. degree.

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Our paper on predicting G-quadruplex propensity from a DNA sequence is finally published. We trained G4mismatch, a CNN to predict G4 mismatch scores, on G4-seq data (nearly 400 million data points across the human genome).​

Karin Elimelech, Computer Science M.Sc. student

Michal Rahimi, Computer Science M.Sc. student.

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Yaron will hold a joint appointment in Computer Science and Life Sciences. Interested students are welcome to contact Yaron directly by email.

Congratulations to Ido Tziony on receiving the Rector’s Award for Excellence!

A new paper titled "GreedyMini: Generating low-density DNA minimizers" is now published in bioRxiv.

Alon won the Excellent Final Project for his research on CRISPR off-target effects.

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A new paper titled "SWOffinder: Efficient and versatile search of CRISPR off-targets with bulges by Smith-Waterman alignment" is now published in iScience.

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Ido Blass, Life Science Ph.D. student

Alon Luboshitz, Bioinformatics M.Sc. student

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Congratulations to Ofir Yaish for receiving the Dean's Honors in recognition of his achievement during his Ph.D. degree.

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Congratulations to Ofir Yaish for receiving the Dean's Honors in recognition of his achievement during his Ph.D. degree.

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This fellowship is awarded to excellent PhD students from the periphery