Interested in a post-doc in Israel? The deadline for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship is November 19. The fellowship offers generous funding for postdocs to conduct research in any academic discipline at eligible Israeli institutions: azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte...

The start of a new academic year at the Orenstein lab - we are excited to welcome three new MSc students: Yehuda, Evyatar, and Sapir, and continue with three PhD students: Ido, Jonathan, and Noam. Good luck in your studies and research!

The GreedyMini paper is finally out as part of #ISMBECCB2025 proceedings: academic.oup.com/bioinformati.... Arseny will present it on the last day (July 24th) and last session (14:20) of the HiTSeq meeting.

🚨 Attention US PhDs in Bioinformatics:

Interested in a postdoc in my group at Bar-Ilan University 🇮🇱 through the Fulbright Israel fellowship (2026–2027)?

🧬 2 years of research
💰 $95,000 stipend + relocation + benefits
📅 Apply by 15/9
🔗 www.fulbright.org.il/program/2/842
✉️ Email me!

It was a delight to host my former PhD advisor Prof. Ron Shamir and hear about his current research on clustering cancer patients and standardising Parkinson's disease progression scores (in addition to the usual chit-chatting and updates...)

🚨 Deadline Extended: Call for Papers - RECOMB-seq 2025 🚨

Great news! You now have an extra week to submit your work. 🎉

Updated Deadlines:
🔹 Abstract Registration: Jan 31, 2025
🔹 Submission: Feb 7, 2025

recomb-seq.github.io/papers/

🚨 Call for Papers: RECOMB-seq 2025 🚨

🗓️ Dates: April 24-25, 2025

📍 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Key deadlines:
🔹 Abstract registration: Jan 24, 2025
🔹 Submission: Jan 31, 2025

More details: recomb-seq.github.io/papers/

Excited to share FiSSC, a new method to find a smallest sequence cover of sets of degenerate reads. We prove that the problem is NP-hard, and suggest filtering steps and an ILP solution. We apply it to RNA A-to-I editing data to gauge biological complexity
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...