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I am a graduate student in the CS department at UC Berkeley, privileged to be advised by Lior Pachter.
My interests are in the practical and theoretical aspects of the study of epigenetics on a genomewide scale.

Before coming to Berkeley I received a BSc in Computer Science and Biology (double major) through the Bioinformatics program at Tel-Aviv University.
During that period I was fortunate to work with Eran Segal's research group at the Weizmann Institute and with Shaul Yalovsky's research group at Tel-Aviv University. 

You are welcome to contact me at:   meromit <at> cs.berkeley.edu

Publications

Identification and correction of systematic error in high-throughput sequence data
Frazer Meacham, Dario Boffelli, Joseph Dhahbi, David I.K. Martin, Meromit Singer^ and Lior Pachter^
BMC Bioinformatics, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-451
Presented at The Biology of Genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Labs (2011). Download slides here.
Most viewed and most forwarded paper of BMC Bioinformatics, November 2011.

Phyloepigenomic comparison of great apes reveals a correlation between somatic and germline methylation states
David I.K. Martin* Meromit Singer*, Joseph Dhahbi, Guanxiong Mao, Lu Zhang, Gary P. Schroth, Lior Pachter and Dario Boffelli
Genome Research, doi:10.1101/gr.122721.111

Determining coding CpG islands by identifying regions significant for pattern statistics on Markov chains
Meromit Singer*, Alexander Engstrom*, Alexander Schoenhuth^ and Lior Pachter^
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 10 (2011), Article 43.

Nitrogen source interacts with ROP signaling in root hair tip-growth
Daria Bloch, Gabriele Monshausen, Meromit Singer, Simon Gilroy and Shaul Yalovsky.
Plant, Cell and Environment, (2011) 34, 76-88.

MetMap enables genome-scale methyltyping for determining methylation states in populations
Meromit Singer, Dario Boffelli, Joseph Dhahbi, Alexander Schoenhuth , Gary P. Schroth, David I.K. Martin and Lior Pachter
PLoS Computational Biology, 6 (2010), e1000888.

Monoubiquitinated H2B is associated with the transcribed region of highly expressed genes in human cells
Neri Minsky, Efrat Shema, Yair Field, Meromit Schuster, Eran Segal and Moshe Oren
Nature Cell Biology (2008) 10(4):483 - 488.

* - joint first author. ^ - joint corresponding author.

Book Chapters

Bayesian networks in the study of genomewide DNA methylation
Meromit Singer and Lior Pachter
Submitted.

Software

SysCall - Distinguishing heterozygous sites from systematic errors.
MetMap - Inference of Genomewide Methylation from MethylSeq Experiments.