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Zohar Yakhini is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research spans multiple areas within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Cancer Research, Epidemiology, and Biotechnology. The work covers a variety of scientific topics including DNA and Biological Computing, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, microbial inactivation methods, Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research, gene expression and cancer classification, nonmelanoma skin cancer studies, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Yakhini has contributed to numerous publications, with notable papers including:

  • Spatial transcriptomics inferred from pathology whole-slide images links tumor heterogeneity to survival in breast and lung cancer, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Increasing CRISPR Efficiency and Measuring Its Specificity in HSPCs Using a Clinically Relevant System, 2020, Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development
  • CRISPECTOR provides accurate estimation of genome editing translocation and off-target activity from comparative NGS data, 2021, Nature Communications
  • SOLQC: Synthetic Oligo Library Quality Control tool, 2020, Bioinformatics
  • A broad analysis of splicing regulation in yeast using a large library of synthetic introns, 2021, PLoS Genetics

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Yakhini include Alexander Golberg, Leon Anavy, Edward Vitkin, Ariel Berl, and Ofir Shir-az.

The main publication venues for Yakhini's work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bioinformatics
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • GOrilla: a tool for discovery and visualization of enriched GO terms in ranked gene lists

    Eran Eden;Roy Navon;Roy Navon;Israel Steinfeld;Israel Steinfeld;Doron Lipson

  • Molecular classification of cutaneous malignant melanoma by gene expression profiling

    M. Bittner;P.S.J. Meltzer;Y.D. Chen;Y. Jiang

  • Gene-Expression Profiles in Hereditary Breast Cancer

    I Hedenfalk;D Duggan;Y Chen;M Radmacher

  • Clustering gene expression patterns.

    Amir Ben-Dor;Ron Shamir;Zohar Yakhini

  • Discovering local structure in gene expression data: the order-preserving submatrix problem.

    Amir Ben-Dor;Benny Chor;Richard M. Karp;Zohar Yakhini

  • Polycomb-mediated methylation on Lys27 of histone H3 pre-marks genes for de novo methylation in cancer

    Yeshayahu Schlesinger;Ravid Straussman;Ilana Keshet;Shlomit Farkash

  • Tissue classification with gene expression profiles.

    Amir Ben-Dor;Laurakay Bruhn;Nir Friedman;Iftach Nachman

  • Discovering Motifs in Ranked Lists of DNA Sequences

    Eran Eden;Doron Lipson;Sivan Yogev;Sivan Yogev;Zohar Yakhini;Zohar Yakhini

  • Gene expression analysis reveals matrilysin as a key regulator of pulmonary fibrosis in mice and humans

    Fengrong Zuo;Naftali Kaminski;Elsie Eugui;John Allard

  • Inferring gene regulatory logic from high-throughput measurements of thousands of systematically designed promoters

    Eilon Sharon;Yael Kalma;Ayala Sharp;Tali Raveh-Sadka

  • Novel Role for the Potent Endogenous Inotrope Apelin in Human Cardiac Dysfunction

    Mary M. Chen;Euan A. Ashley;David X.F. Deng;Anya Tsalenko

  • Developmental programming of CpG island methylation profiles in the human genome

    Ravid Straussman;Deborah Nejman;Douglas Roberts;Israel Steinfeld

  • The fine-scale and complex architecture of human copy-number variation.

    George H. Perry;Amir Ben-Dor;Anya Tsalenko;Nick Sampas

  • Comparative genomic hybridization using oligonucleotide microarrays and total genomic DNA.

    Michael T. Barrett;Alicia Scheffer;Amir Ben-Dor;Nick Sampas

  • Comparative genetics. Systematic discovery of cap-independent translation sequences in human and viral genomes.

    Shira Weingarten-Gabbay;Shani Elias-Kirma;Ronit Nir;Alexey A. Gritsenko

  • miRNA-mRNA integrated analysis reveals roles for miRNAs in primary breast tumors

    Espen Enerly;Israel Steinfeld;Kristine Kleivi;Kristine Kleivi;Suvi Katri Leivonen

  • Array CGH analysis of copy number variation identifies 1284 new genes variant in healthy white males: implications for association studies of complex diseases

    Adam J. de Smith;Anya Tsalenko;Nick Sampas;Alicia Scheffer

  • Molecular classification of familial non-BRCA1/BRCA2 breast cancer

    Ingrid Hedenfalk;Markus Ringner;Markus Ringner;Amir Ben-Dor;Zohar Yakhini

  • Clustering gene expression patterns

    Amir Ben-Dor;Zohar Yakhini

  • Molecular classification of cutaneous malignant melanoma by gene expression profiling

    M. Bittner;P. Meltzer;Y. Chen;Y. Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Vessela N. Kristensen
Vessela N. Kristensen Oslo University Hospital
Anne Lise Børresen-Dale
Anne Lise Børresen-Dale Oslo University Hospital
Nir Friedman
Nir Friedman Weizmann Institute of Science
Eran Segal
Eran Segal Weizmann Institute of Science
Roded Sharan
Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University
Benny Chor
Benny Chor Tel Aviv University
Naftali Kaminski
Naftali Kaminski Yale University
Thomas Quertermous
Thomas Quertermous Stanford University
Jeffrey M. Trent
Jeffrey M. Trent Translational Genomics Research Institute
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London

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