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Research interests
Our lab develops computational and statistical tools to process and analyze high-throughput biological data. The research is multidisciplinary and involves elements from mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, biology, and medicine. Our primary focus is on the adaptive immune system from a system/repertoire perspective. In particular, we are interested in understanding lymphocyte (T and B cells) repertoire dynamics in healthy individuals as well as in illness states such as infections, autoimmune diseases, aging, and cancer. We apply advanced molecular biology methods to produce large sequencing data sets of human lymphocyte receptors and analyze them using dedicated computational pipelines, in order to obtain meaningful biological insights into the adaptive immune system.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 2004 → Jun 2009
Award Date: 30 Jun 2009
Master, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 2001 → Jun 2004
Award Date: 30 Jun 2004
Bachelor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 1998 → Jun 2001
Award Date: 30 Jun 2001
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Germline-encoded recognition of peanut underlies development of convergent antibodies in humans
Marini-Rapoport, O., Andrieux, L., Keswani, T., Zong, G., Duchen, D., Yaari, G., Min, J., Lytle, I. R., Rosenberg, A. F., Fucile, C., Kobie, J. J., Piepenbrink, M. S., Sun, T., Martin, V. M., Yuan, Q., Shreffler, W. G., Seppo, A. E., Järvinen, K. M., Loeffler, J. R. & Ward, A. B. & 5 others, , 11 Jun 2025, In: Science Translational Medicine. 17, 802, eadw4148.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Simulation of adaptive immune receptors and repertoires with complex immune information to guide the development and benchmarking of AIRR machine learning
Chernigovskaya, M., Pavlović, M., Kanduri, C., Gielis, S., Robert, P. A., Scheffer, L., Slabodkin, A., Haff, I. H., Meysman, P., Yaari, G., Sandve, G. K. & Greiff, V., 24 Jan 2025, In: Nucleic acids research. 53, 3, gkaf025.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An unbiased comparison of immunoglobulin sequence aligners
Konstantinovsky, T., Peres, A., Polak, P. & Yaari, G., 23 Sep 2024, In: Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25, 6, bbae556.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Digger: directed annotation of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor V, D, and J gene sequences and assemblies
Lees, W. D., Saha, S., Yaari, G. & Watson, C. T., 4 Mar 2024, In: Bioinformatics. 40, 3, btae144.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Guidelines for reproducible analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing data
Peres, A., Klein, V., Frankel, B., Lees, W., Polak, P., Meehan, M., Rocha, A., Correia Lopes, J. & Yaari, G., 27 Mar 2024, In: Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25, 3, bbae221.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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