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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Excited to be presenting 4 talks at ISMB 2026 @iscb.bsky.social on protein engineering, sequencing algorithms, CRISPR repair-outcome prediction, and regulatory genomics. If you’ll be at ISMB, let’s connect. #ISMB2026 #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #MachineLearning #Genomics

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

📢 Applications are open: Azrieli Intl Visiting PhD Fellowship (deadline May 12, 2026). I’d be glad to host strong PhD students in my lab (computational biology / ML / genomics). 💰 12K ILS/month | ⏱ up to 4 months Reach out if interested! azrielifoundation.org

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Homepage - The Azrieli Foundation

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New preprint alert! we developed ExoShorkie to predict RNA-seq coverage of exogenous genomes in yeast. We fine-tuned the recently developed Shorkie on RNA-seq data of exogenous genomes, and show that ExoShorkie performs best on held-out genomes.

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🚀 New preprint: CROP - Revolutionizing #CRISPR repair outcome prediction! ✂️🧬 Problem: How to predict frameshift rates (key for gene knockout design) across diverse experiments? #CRISPR #GeneEditing #MachineLearning #Bioinformatics

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy to share our new method F-MoDA to find motifs in genomic attribution maps just published in MLCB 2025 proceedings! F-MoDA has improved specificity, sensitivity, accuracy, conciseness, and runtime compared to TF-MoDISco. Led by Ofir Yaish: proceedings.mlr.press/v311/yaish25...

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Excited to share this preprint which describe the IBIS challenge to predict TF binding sites across experimental assays. My students achieved best performance in the in vitro -> in vivo task! Thanks so much for the organizers for their herculean efforts!

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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...

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International Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Azrieli Foundation

The Azrieli Fellows Program is an elite group of academics who cultivate a network of leading professionals in Israel and around the world.

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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!

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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.

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GreedyMini: generating low-density DNA minimizers

AbstractMotivation. Minimizers are the most popular k-mer selection scheme in algorithms and data structures analyzing high-throughput sequencing (HTS) dat

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🚨 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!

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Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowships at Bar-Ilan University | Fulbright

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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...)

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recombseq.bsky.social @recombseq.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🚨 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/

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Call for Papers

RECOMB-seq is the RECOMB Satellite Conference on Biological Sequence Analysis

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recombseq.bsky.social @recombseq.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🚨 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/

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Call for Papers

RECOMB-seq is the RECOMB Satellite Conference on Biological Sequence Analysis

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Yaron Orenstein @yaronorenstein.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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/...

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FiSSC: Finding smallest sequence covers to sets of degenerate reads with applications to RNA editing | Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and...

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