Olfaction

• Menashe I, Abaffy T, Hasin Y, Goshen S, Yahalom V, Luetje CW and Lancet D. Genetic elucidation of human hyperosmia to isovaleric acid. PLoS Biol. 2007 Oct 30;5(11):e284. (pdf)
• Aloni R, Olender T, Lancet D. Ancient genomic architecture for mammalian olfactory receptor clusters. Genome Biol. 2006 Oct 1;7(10) (pdf)
• Menashe I, Aloni R, Lancet D. A probabilistic classifier for olfactory receptor pseudogenes. BMC Bioinformatics. 2006 Aug 29;7:393. (pdf)
• Feldmesser E, Olender T, Khen M, Yanai I, Ophir R, Lancet D. Widespread ectopic expression of olfactory receptor genes. BMC Genomics. 2006 May 22;7:121. (pdf)
• Olender T, Feldmesser E, Atarot T, Eisenstein M, Lancet D., The olfactory receptor universe--from whole genome analysis to structure and evolution. Genet Mol Res. 2004 Dec 30;3(4):545-53. (pdf)
• Man, O., Gilad, Y., and Lancet, D. Prediction of the odorant binding site of olfactory receptor proteins by human-mouse comparisons. Protein Science 13:240-254 (2004). (pdf)
• Olender, T., Fuchs, T., Linhart, C., Shamir, R., Adams, M., Kalush, F., Khen, M, and Lancet, D. The Canine Olfactory Subgenome. Genomics. 83:361-372 (2004). (pdf)
• Menashe, I., Man, O., Lancet, D., and Gilad, Y. Different noses for different people. Nature Genetics. 34(2): 143-144 (2003). (pdf).
• Gilad, Y, and Lancet, D. Population differences in the human functional olfactory repertoire. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 20(3):307-314 (2003). (pdf).

Origin Of Life

• Shenhav B, Oz A, Lancet D. Coevolution of compositional protocells and their environment. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2007 Oct 29;362(1486):1813-9. (pdf).
• Barak Shenhav, Ariel Solomon, Doron Lancet and Ran Kafri Early Systems Biology and Prebiotic Networks C. Priami (eds.), Transactions on Computational Systems Biology, LNCS 3380, p. 14-27, 2005. (pdf).
• Barak Shenhav, Arren Bar-Even, Ran Kafri and Doron Lancet Polymer GARD: computer simulation of covalent bond formation in reproducing molecular assemblies Origins Life Evol. Biosphere, 35(2), 111-133 (2005). (pdf).
• Shenhav, B., and Lancet, D. Prospects of a Computational Origin-of-life Endeavor (CORE). Origins of Life and Early Evolution of the Biosphere. 34: 181-194 (2004). (pdf).
• Shenhav, B., Segre, D., and Lancet, D. Mesobiotic emergence: molecular and assemble complexity and early evolution. Advances in Complex Systems 6(1): 15-35 (2003). (pdf).
• Segre, D., Ben-Eli, D., Deamer, D., Lancet, D. The lipid world. Origins Life and Evol. Of the Biosphere, 31:119-145 (2001). (pdf).

GeneCards/GeneAnnot

• Ferrari F, Bortoluzzi S, Coppe A, Sirota A, Safran M, Shmoish M, Ferrari S, Lancet D, Danieli G A, and Bicciato S. Novel definition files for human GeneChips based on GeneAnnot. BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:446 (pdf).
• Shklar M, Strichman-Almashanu L, Shmueli O, Shmoish M, Safran M, and Lancet D. GeneTide--Terra Incognita Discovery Endeavor: a new transcriptome focused member of the GeneCards/GeneNote suite of databases. Nucleic Acids Res. 33: D556 - D561 (2005). (pdf).
• Yanai I, Benjamin H, Shmoish M, Chalifa-Caspi V, Shklar M, Ophir R, Bar-Even A, Horn-Saban S, Safran M, Domany E, Lancet D, Shmueli O. Genome-wide midrange transcription profiles reveal expression level relationships in human tissue specification. Bioinformatics 21, 5: 650-659 (2005). (pdf).
• Chalifa-Caspi, V., Yanai, I., Ophir, R., Rosen, N., Shmoish, M., Benjamin-Rodrig, H., Iny Stein, T., Shmueli, O., Safran, M. and Lancet, D. GeneAnnot: comprehensive two-way linking between oligonucleotide array probesets and GeneCards genes. Bioinformatics 20, 9: 1457-1458 (2004). (pdf).
• Chalifa-Caspi, V., Shmueli, O., Benjamin-Rodrig, H., Rosen, N., Shmoish, M., Yanai, I., Ophir, R., Kats, P., Safran, M., and Lancet, D. GeneAnnot: Interfacing GeneCards with high throughput gene expression compendia. Briefings in Bioinformatics 4(4): 349-360 (2003). (pdf).
• Shmueli, O., Horn-Saban, S., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Shmoish, M., Ophir, R., Benjamin-Rodrig, H., Safran, M., Domany, E., and Lancet, D. GeneNoTe: whole genome expression profiles in normal human tissues. Comptes Rendus Biologies de L'Academie des Sciences, Life Sciences 326: 1067-1072 (2003). (pdf).
• Rosen, N., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Shmueli, O., Adato, A., Lapidot, M., Stampnitzky, J., Safran, M., and Lancet, D. GeneLoc: Exon-based integration of human genome maps. Bioinformatics (ISMB). 19(1): 1222-1224 (2003). (pdf).
• Safran, M., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Shmueli, O., Olender, T., Lapidot, M., Rosen, N., Shmoish, M., Peter, Y., Glusman, G., Feldmesser, E., Adato, A., Peter, I., Khen, M., Atarot, T., Groner, Y., and Lancet, D. Human Gene-Centric Databases at the Weizmann Institute of Science: GeneCards, UDB, CroW 21 and HORDE. Nucleic Acids Research , 31(1):142-146 (2003). (pdf).

The crown human genome center

• Avidan, N., Tamary, H., Dgany, O., Cattan, D., Pariente, A., Thulliez, M., Borot, N., Moati, L., Barthelme, A., Shalmon, L., Krasnov, T., Ben-Asher, E., Olender, T., Khen, M., Yaniv, I., Zaizov, R., Shalev, H., Delaunay, J., Fellous, M., Lancet, D. and Beckmann, J. CatSper2, a human autosomal non-syndromic male infertility gene. European Journal of Human Genetics 11:497-502 (2003). (pdf)
• Adato, A., Vreugde, S., Joensuu, T., Avidan, N., Hamalainen, R., Belenkiy, O., Olander, Z., Bonne-Tamir, B., Ben-Asher, E., Espinos, C., Lehesjoki, A.-E., Flannery, J.G., Avraham, K.B., Pietrokovski, Sh., Sankila, E.-M., Beckmann, J.S., and Lancet, D. USH3A transcripts encode clarin-1, a four-transmembrane-domain protein with a possible role in sensory synapses. European Journal of Human Genetics, 10: 339-350 (2002). (pdf)
• Dgany, O., Avidan, N.,Delaunay, J., Krasnov, T., Shalmon, L., Shalev, H., Eidelitz-Markus, T., Kapelushnik, J., Cattan, D., Pariente, A., Tulliez, M., Fibach, E., Ben-Asher, E., Olender, T., Koren, A., Roessler, J., Yaniv, I., Zaizov, R., Lancet, D., Beckmann, J.S., and Tamary, H. Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia type 1 is caused by mutations in codanin-1. American Journal of Human Genetics, 71:1467-1474 (2002). (pdf).
• Eisenberg, I., Avidan, N., Potikha, T., Hochner, H., Chen, M., Olender, T., Barash, M., Shemesh, M., Sadeh, M., Grabov-Nardini, G., Shmilevich , I., Friedmann, A., Karpati, G., Bradley, W.G., Baumbach, L., Lancet, D., Ben-Asher, E., Beckmann, J.S., Argov, Z., and Mitrani-Rosenbaum, S. The UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase gene is mutated in recessive hereditary inclusion body myopathy Nature Genetics, 29:83-87 (2001). (pdf).
• Lahat, H., Pras, E., Olender, T., Avidan, N., Ben-Asher, E., Man, O., Levy-Nissrnbaum, E., Khoury, A., Lorber, A., Goldman, B., Lancet, D., and Eldar, M. A Missense Mutation in a Highly Conserved Region of CASQ2 is Associated with Autosomal Recessive Catecholamine Induced Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycandia in Bedouin Families in Israel. American Journal of Human Genetics, 69:1378-1384 (2001). (pdf)
• Bargal, R., Avidan, N., Ben-Asher, E., Olender, Z., Zeigler, M., Frumkin, A., Raas-Rothschild, A., Glusman, G., Lancet, D., and Bach, G. Identification of the gene causing Mucolipidosis type IV. Nature Genetics, 26(1): 120-123 (2000). (pdf).