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Career

· Chief Scientist, SAIVA AI INC2021–
· Professor of Developmental Biology, of Computer Science and of Pediatrics (Genetics), Stanford University2007–
· Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Cruz2003–2007
· Lecturer, Computer Science Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem1999–2001
· PhD in Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem1999–2004
· Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem1997–1999
· B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem1992–1997

Publications (327)

GREAT improves functional interpretation of cis-regulatory regions
Nature Biotechnology · 2010
4,267
cited
Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes.
Genome Research · 2005
3,976
cited
Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution
Nature · 2004
2,649
cited
The UCSC Genome Browser Database: update 2006
Nucleic Acids Res. · 2005
1,826
cited
Novel small RNA-encoding genes in the intergenic regions of Escherichia coli
Current Biology · 2001
800
cited
M-CAP eliminates a majority of variants of uncertain significance in clinical exomes at high sensitivity
Nature Genetics · 2016
779
cited
Identification and Classification of Conserved RNA Secondary Structures in the Human Genome
PLoS Comput. Biol. · 2006
557
cited
Enhancers: five essential questions
Nature reviews genetics · 2013
548
cited
A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon
Nature · 2006
518
cited
Forces Shaping the Fastest Evolving Regions in the Human Genome
PLoS Genetics · 2006
505
cited
Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits
Nature · 2011
479
cited
Systematic reanalysis of clinical exome data yields additional diagnoses: implications for providers
Genetics in Medicine · 2016
301
cited
A comparative genomics multitool for scientific discovery and conservation
Nature · 2020
297
cited
Identification of rare-disease genes using blood transcriptome sequencing and large control cohorts
Nature Medicine · 2019
264
cited
Human Genome Ultraconserved Elements Are Ultraselected
Science · 2007
257
cited
Thousands of human mobile element fragments undergo strong purifying selection near developmental genes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2007
253
cited
Coding exons function as tissue-specific enhancers of nearby genes
Genome Research · 2012
224
cited
Variations on probabilistic suffix trees: statistical modeling and prediction of protein families
Bioinform. · 2001
195
cited
Darwin: A Genomics Co-processor Provides up to 15,000X Acceleration on Long Read Assembly
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems · 2018
173
cited
Using Machine-Learning Methods for Musical Style Modeling
Computer · 2003
169
cited
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