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Publications and Projects.

Selected Publications

  • Eran Halperin and Dietrich A. Stephan, SNP imputation in association studies, Nature Biotechnology, 27(4), 349-51, 2009.
  • Eran Halperin and Dietrich A. Stephan, Maximizing power in association studies, Nature Biotechnology, 27(3), 255-6, 2009.
  • Sriram Sankararaman, Srinath Sridhar, Gad Kimmel and Eran Halperin, Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 82, Issue 2, 290-303, 2008.
  • Noah Zaitlen, Hyun Min Kang, Eleazar Eskin, Eran Halperin, Leveraging the HapMap Correlation Structure in Association Studies, The American Journal of Human Genetics, 80:683-691, 2007.
  • Kenneth B. Beckman, Kenneth A. Abel, Andreas Braun and Eran Halperin, Using DNA Pools for Genotyping Trios, Nucleic Acids Research, 2006; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl700.
  • David A. Hinds, Laura L. Stuve, Geoffrey B. Nilsen, Eran Halperin, Eleazar Eskin, Dennis G. Ballinger, Kelly A. Frazer, David R. Cox, Whole-Genome Patterns of Common DNA Variation in Three Human Populations, Science, 18 February 2005: 1072-1079.
  • Eran Halperin and Elad Hazan, HAPLOFREQ - Estimating Haplotype Frequencies Efficiently, RECOMB, 2005: 553-568. Also in a special issue of Journal of Computational Biology, 13 (2): 481-500, 2006.
  • Eran Halperin and Eleazar Eskin, Haplotype Reconstruction from Genotype Data using Imperfect Phylogeny, Bioinformatics 20(12): 1842-1849 (2004).
  • Julia Chuzhoy, Sudipto Guha, Eran Halperin, Sanjeev Khanna, Guy Kortsarz, Robert Krauthgamer and Seffi Naor, Tight lower bounds for the asymmetric k-center problem, Journal of the ACM, 52(4):538-551, 2005.
  • Eran Halperin, Improved approximation algorithms for the vertex cover problem in graphs and hypergraphs, Siam Journal on Computing, 31, 1608-1623, (2002).

Current group members

  • Ram Avinery
  • Tom Gur
  • Bonnie Kirkpatrick
  • Bogdan Pasaniuc

Former members

  • Sriram Sankararaman
  • Lucia Conde Lagoa
  • Erno Lindfors
  • Srinath Sridhar
  • Carlos Santos
  • Gad Kimmel

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Education and employment:

  • 2005-present: Principal Investigator, ICSI, Berkeley.
  • 2008-present: Assistant professor in the school of computer science and the department of biotechnology, Tel-Aviv University.
  • 2007-2008: Director of Bioinformatics, Navigenics, Inc.
  • 2003-2004: Research Associate, Princeton University, NJ.
  • 2001-2003: Post-doc, UC Berkeley and ICSI, California.
    Advisor: Richard Karp.
  • 1997-2000: Research, Compugen LTD.
  • 1997-2001: PhD, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
    Advisor: Uri Zwick.
  • 1993-1996: M.Sc., Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
    Advisor: Noga Alon.

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