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News and media coverage

  • 05/2008 - Of the roughly 100 papers to be presented at this years ISMB 2008, the largest and most selective computational biology conference, 4 are from our group. These include two regular track papers (by Yanjun Qi and Henry Lin) and two highlight track papers: Our Genome Biology paper on the analysis of cycling genes in four species and our PNAS paper on human cycling genes.


  • 01/2008 - A new paper we published in PNAS about the set of cell cycle genes in healthy and cancer human cells attracted national and local attention. The following are a few notable places reporting on our work:
    CMU press release , US News and World Report , Forbes.com , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (front page story) , Channel 4 (local ABC affiliate).


  • 9/2007 - Jason Ernst is awarded the Siebel Scholarship. The Scholars Program recognizes the most talented students who have demonstrated academic and leadership excellence at the world's leading graduate schools of business and computer science.


  • 7/2007 - Our paper Reconstructing dynamic regulatory maps is selected as a highlight paper at ISMB the largest and most selective computational biology conference. The paper and associated software (DREM) have also received some nice blog coverage during the conference.


  • 9/2006 - Matlab releases the new Bioinformatics toolbox. This toolbox includes a new function implementing the optimal leaf ordering algorithm developed by our group.


  • 1/2006 - Our new software, STEM: Short Time-series Expression Miner, is featured in:
    CMU Tech Transfer Annual Report 2005 (page 14)


  • 11/2005 - Our recent Nature Biotechnology paper presenting a CheckSum method for determining the quality of time-series expression profiles is featured in:
    CMU press release , Pittsburgh Post Gazette , Drug Discovery & Development , Bio-IT World, Red Herring


  • 10/2005 - We are part of the new NIH funded Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity:
    University of Pittsburgh press release, Pittsburgh Post Gazette


  • 7/2005 - Ziv Bar-Joseph receives NSF CAREER award


  • 11/2004 - Yanjun Qi wins Merck Graduate Fellowship for 2004-2005