Moran Yassour
I'm a PhD student in Computational Biology at the
School of Computer Science & Engineering,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

My advisors are Nir Friedman from the Hebrew University and Aviv Regev from the Broad Institute.


Contact Information:

Moran Yassour
School of Computer Science & Engineering
The Hebrew University
Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

E-mail: moran@cs.huji.ac.il, moran@broad.mit.edu
Phone: +972-2-6586853


Publications:

Science Gloria A. Brar, Moran Yassour, Nir Friedman, Aviv Regev, Nicholas T. Ingolia1, Jonathan S. Weissman
High-Resolution View of the Yeast Meiotic Program Revealed by Ribosome Profiling
Science. 2011 December.
NatureBioTech Manfred G Grabherr*, Brian J Haas*, Moran Yassour*, Joshua Z Levin, Dawn A Thompson, Ido Amit, Xian Adiconis, Lin Fan,
Raktima Raychowdhury, Qiandong Zeng, Zehua Chen, Evan Mauceli, Nir Hacohen, Andreas Gnirke, Nicholas Rhind,
Federica di Palma, Bruce W Birren, Chad Nusbaum, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Nir Friedman and Aviv Regev
Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

Nature Biotechnology. 2011 May. (Sourceforge page)
Science Nicholas Rhind, Zehua Chen, Moran Yassour*, Dawn A. Thompson*, Brian J. Haas*, Naomi Habib*, Ilan Wapinski*,Sushmita Roy*, ... ,
Nir Friedman, Jacob Z. Dalgaard, Peter Baumann, Hironori Niki, Aviv Regev, Chad Nusbaum
Comparative Functional Genomics of the Fission Yeasts

Science. 2011 April.
GenomeBiology Moran Yassour, Jenna Pfiffner, Joshua Z. Levin, Xian Adiconis, Andreas Gnirke, Chad Nusbaum,
Dawn Anne Thompson, Nir Friedman, and Aviv Regev
Strand-specific RNA sequencing reveals extensive regulated long antisense transcripts that are conserved across yeast species
Genome Biology. 2010 Aug. (Supplementary website)
NatureMethods Joshua Z. Levin*, Moran Yassour*, Xian Adiconis, Chad Nusbaum, Dawn Anne Thompson,
Nir Friedman, Andreas Gnirke, and Aviv Regev
Comprehensive comparative analysis of strand-specific RNA sequencing methods

Nature Methods. 2010 Aug. (Supplementary website)
GenomeBiology Tae Soo Kim, Chih Long Liu, Moran Yassour, John Holik, Nir Friedman, Stephen Buratowski and Oliver J Rando
RNA Polymerase mapping during stress responses reveals widespread nonproductive transcription in yeast
Genome Biology. 2010 July
GenomeResearch Assaf Weiner, Amanda Hughes, Moran Yassour, Oliver J. Rando, and Nir Friedman
High-resolution nucleosome mapping reveals transcription-dependent promoter packaging
Genome Research. 2009 Oct (Supplementary website)
PNAS Moran Yassour*, Tommy Kaplan*, Hunter B. Fraser, Joshua Z. Levin, Jenna Pfiffner, Xian Adiconis,
Gary Schroth, Shujun Luo, Irina Khrebtukova, Andreas Gnirke, Chad Nusbaum, Dawn-Anne Thompson,
Nir Friedman and Aviv Regev
Ab initio construction of a eukaryotic transcriptome by massively parallel mRNA sequencing
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Mar 3;106(9):3264-9 (Supplementary website)
ISMB 2008 Moran Yassour, Tommy Kaplan, Ariel Jaimovich and Nir Friedman
Nucleosome positioning from tiling microarray data
Bioinformatics 2008 24: i139-i146 (Proc Int Conf Intell Syst Mol Biol (ISMB), 2008)


Teaching:


Nucleosome Positioning from Tiling Microarray Data
M.Sc. Dissertation


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