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Akhiad Bercovich

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Organism:human· 4 Assay:scRNA-seq· 4 Approach:statistical model· 4 Research Focus:clustering· 3 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1

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A weak-interaction model defines the cell-autonomous function of DNA methylation in gastrulation

Saifeng Cheng, Roni Stok Ranen, Yoav Mayshar, Ofir Raz, Aviezer Lifshitz, Evgheni Casimov, Tal Sokolov, Akhiad Bercovich, Raz Ben-Yair, Oren Ben-Kiki, Netta Reines, Ayelet-Hashahar Orenbuch, Shuailin Du, Jinfang Wang, Zhu Y, , Amos Tanay

The paper introduces a weak-interaction model showing DNA methylation moderates, but does not block, trans-acting regulatory machineries during mouse gastrulation.

bioRxiv · May 14, 2026 · PreprintGenomics

Metacell projection for interpretable and quantitative use of transcriptional atlases

Oren Ben-Kiki, Akhiad Bercovich, Aviezer Lifshitz, Amos Tanay

MCProj projects query scRNA-seq data onto reference atlases to identify consistent and novel cell states while correcting for technical biases.

bioRxiv · Dec 1, 2022 · PreprintBioinformatics

A divide and conquer metacell algorithm for scalable scRNA-seq analysis

Oren Ben-Kiki, Akhiad Bercovich, Aviezer Lifshitz, Amos Tanay

The paper introduces Metacell-2, a scalable algorithm for scRNA-seq analysis that improves efficiency and quality in decomposing datasets into cohesive groups.

Genome biology · Apr 19, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Recurrent pre-leukemic deletions in myeloid malignancies are the result of DNA double-strand breaks followed by microhomology-mediated end joining

Tzah Feldman, Akhiad Bercovich, Yoni Moskovitz, Noa Chapal-Ilani, Amanda Mitchell, Jessie J.F. Medeiros, Nathali Kaushansky, Tamir Biezuner, Mark David Minden, Vikas K Gupta, Amos Tanay, Liran I. Shlush

The paper identifies microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) as the mechanism behind recurrent deletions in myeloid malignancies and shows that these deletions occur in multipotent hematopoietic stem cells.

bioRxiv · Jan 1, 2020 · PreprintGenomics

MetaCell: analysis of single cell RNA-seq data using k-NN graph partitions

Yael Baran, Akhiad Bercovich, Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Yaniv Lubling, Amir Giladi, Elad Chomsky, Zohar Meir, Michael Hoichman, Aviezer Lifshitz, Amos Tanay

MetaCell partitions scRNA-seq data into homogeneous metacells to address sparsity, enabling clustering and gene expression analysis without enforcing global structure.

Genome biology · Oct 11, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics