2025
Lucas A, Schäffer DE, Wickramasinghe J, Auslander N. kMermaid: Ultrafast metagenomic read assignment to protein clusters by hashing of amino-acid k-mer frequencies. Plos Computational Biology, 2025
C Shao, A Indeglia, M Foster, K Casey, J Leung, SR Modarai, JI Leu, B Duong, AM Mes-Masson, J Sims-Mourtada, N Auslander, R Drapkin, BG Bitler, N Zhang, ME Murphy. Mutant p53 binds and controls estrogen receptor activity to drive endocrine resistance in ovarian cancer. Genes & Development, Accepted
Tcyganov E, Kwak T, Yang X, Poli ANR, Hart C, Bhuniya A, Cassel J, Kossenkov A, Auslander N, Lu L, Sharma P, Mendoza M, Zhigarev D, Cramer G, Cadungog M, Jean S, Chatterjee-Paer S, Weiner D, Donthireddy L, Bristow B, Zhang R, Tyurin V, Tyurina Y, Bayir H, Kagan V, Salvino J, Montaner L. Targeting LxCxE cleft pocket of retinoblastoma protein in immunosuppressive macrophages inhibits ovarian cancer progression. Cancer Immunology Research
2024
Perego M, Yeon M, Agarwal E, Milcarek AT, Bertolini I, Camisaschi C, Ghosh JC, Tang HY, Grandvaux N, Ruscetti M, Kossenkov AV, Preston-Alp S, Tempera I, Auslander N, Altieri DC. Parkin activates innate immunity and promotes anti-tumor immune responses. J Clin Invest
Samantha S. Soldan, Chenhe Su, Maria Chiara Monaco, Leena Yoon, Toshitha Kannan, Urvi Zankharia, Rishi J. Patel, Jayaraju Dheekollu, Olga Vladimirova, Jack W. Dowling, Simon Thebault, Natalie Brown, Annaliese Clauze, Frances Andrada, Andries Feder, Paul J. Planet, Andrew Kossenkov, Daniel E. Schäffer, Joan Ohayon, Noam Auslander, Steven Jacobson, Paul M. Lieberman. Multiple sclerosis patient derived spontaneous B cells have distinct EBV and host gene expression profiles in active disease. Nature Microbiology
2023
Schäffer DE, Li W, Elbasir A, Altieri DC, Long Q*,** Auslander N. Microbial gene expression analysis of healthy and cancerous esophagus uncovers bacterial biomarkers of clinical outcomes. ISME communications 3:128, December 2023
Elbasir A, Ye Y, Schäffer DE, Hao X, Wickramasinghe J, Tsingas K, Lieberman PM, Long Q, Morris Q, Zhang R, Schäffer AA, Auslander N. A deep learning approach reveals unexplored landscape of viral expression in cancer. Nature Communications, February 2023. PMCID: PMC9922274
Andrew Patterson, Abdurrahman Elbasir, Bin Tian, Noam Auslander#. Computational Methods Summarizing Mutational Patterns in Cancer: Promise and Limitations for Clinical Applications. Cancers
Alexandra Indeglia, Jessica C Leung, Sven A Miller, Julia I-Ju Leu, James F Dougherty, Nicole L Clarke, Nicole A Kirven, Chunlei Shao, Lei Ke, Scott Lovell, Thibaut Barnoud, David Y Lu, Cindy Lin, Toshitha Kannan, Kevin P Battaile, Tyler Hong Loong Yang, Isabela Batista Oliva, Daniel T Claiborne, Peter Vogel, Lijun Liu, Qin Liu, Yulia Nefedova, Joel Cassel, Noam Auslander, Andrew V Kossenkov, John Karanicolas, Maureen E Murphy. An African-specific variant of TP53 reveals PADI4 as a regulator of p53-mediated tumor suppression. Cancer Discovery
2022
Patterson A, Auslander N. Mutated Processes Predict Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy Benefit in Metastatic Melanoma. Nature Communications, September 2022.
Mirji G, Worth A, Ahmad Bhat S, El Sayed M, Kim Reiser S, Kannan T, Goldman AR, Tang H, Damra M, Liu Q, Auslander N, Dang CV, Abdel-Mohsen M, Kossenkov A, Stanger BZ, Shinde RS. A microbiome-produced metabolite drives immunostimulatory macrophages and boosts response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in pancreatic cancer. Science Immunology
Emons G*, Auslander N*, Jo P, Kitz J*, Azizian A, Hu Y, Hess FC, Roedel C, Sax U, Salinas-Riester G, Stroebel P, Kramer F, Beissbarth T, Grade M, Ghadimi M, Ruppin R, Gaedcke J, Ried T. Gene expression profiles of pretreatment biopsies predict complete response of rectal cancer patients to preoperative chemoradiotherapy. British Journal of Cancer
2021
Gussow AB, Koonin EV*, Auslander N. Identification of combinations of somatic mutations that predict cancer survival and immunotherapy benefit. NAR Cancer
Patkar S*, Heselmeyer-Haddad K*, Auslander N*, Hirsch D, Camps J, Bronder D, Brown M, Chen WD, Lokanga R, Wangsa D, Wangsa D, Hu Y, Lischka A, Braun R, Emons G, Ghadimi BM, Gaedcke J, Grade M, Montagna C, Lazebnik Y, Difilippantonio MJ, Habermann J, Auer G, Ruppin E*, Ried T. Hard-wiring of normal tissue-specific chromosome-wide gene expression levels is an additional factor driving cancer-type-specific aneuploidies. Genome Medicine
Auslander N, Gussow AB, Koonin EV. Incorporating machine learning into established bioinformatics frameworks. International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2020
Auslander M#, Ramos DM#, Zelaya I, Karathia H, Crawford TO, Schäffer AA, Sumner CJ, Ruppin E*. The GENDULF algorithm: mining transcriptomics to uncover modifier genes for monogenic diseases. Molecular Systems Biology
Gussow AB#, Auslander N#, Wolf YI, Koonin EV*. Prediction of the incubation period for COVID-19 and future virus disease outbreaks. BMC Biology
Auslander N*, Gussow AB*, Benler S, Wolf YI, Koonin EV*. Seeker: Alignment-free identification of bacteriophage genomes by deep learning. Nucleic Acid Research
Dattilo R, Mottini C, Camera E, Lamolinara A, Auslander N, Doglioni G, Muscolini M, Tang W, Planque M, Ercolani C, Buglioni S, Manni I, Trisciuoglio D, Boe A, Grande S, Luciani AM, Iezzi M, Ciliberto G, Ambs S, De Maria R, Fendt S-M, Ruppin E*, Cardone L. Pyrvinium pamoate induces death of triple-negative breast cancer stem-like cells and reduces metastases through effects on lipid anabolism. Cancer Research
Gussow AB#, Auslander N#, Faure G, Wolf YI, Zhang F, Koonin EV*. Genomic determinants of pathogenicity in SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Braun R, Anthuber L, Hirsch D, Wangsa D, Lack J, McNeil NE, Heselmeyer-Haddad K, Torres I, Wangsa D, Brown M, Tubbs A, Auslander N, Gertz EM, Brauer PR, Cam MC, Sackett DL, Habermann JK, Nussenzweig A, Ruppin E*, Zhang Z, Rosenberg DW, Ried T. Single-cell-derived primary rectal carcinoma cell lines reflect intratumor heterogeneity associated with treatment response. Clinical Cancer Research
Auslander N#, Wolf YI, Koonin EV*. Interplay between DNA damage repair and apoptosis shapes cancer evolution through aneuploidy and microsatellite instability. Nature Communications
2019
Kwon SM, Budhu A, Woo HG, Chaisaingmongkol J, Dang H, Forgues M, Harris CC, Zhang G, Auslander N, Ruppin E*, Mahidol C, Ruchirawat M, Wang XW. Functional genomic complexity defines intratumor heterogeneity and tumor aggressiveness in liver cancer. Scientific Reports
Auslander N#, Wolf YI,Shabalina SA, Koonin EV*. A unique insert in the genomes of high-risk human papillomaviruses with a predicted dual role in conferring oncogenic risk. F1000Research
Auslander N, Wolf YI, Koonin EV*. In silico learning of tumor evolution through mutational time series.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Gal O, Auslander N, Fan Y, Meerzaman D. Predicting complete remission of acute myeloid leukemia: Machine learning applied to gene expression. Cancer Informatics
2018
Auslander N, Zhang G, Lee JS, Frederick DT, Miao B, Moll T, Tian T, Wei Z, Sullivan RJ, Madan S, Boland G, Flaherty K, Herlyn M, Ruppin E*. Robust prediction of therapeutic response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy in metastatic melanoma. Nature Medicine
Lee JS, Adler L, Karathia H, Carmel N, Rabinovich S, Auslander N, Keshet R, Stettner N, Silberman A, Agemy L, Helbling D, Eilam R, Sun Q, Brandis A, Malitsky S, Itkin M, Weiss H, Pinto S, Kalaora S, Levy R, Barnea E, Admon A, Dimmock D, Stern Ginossar N, Scherz A, Nagamani SCS, Unda M, Elhasid R, Carracedo A, Samuels Y, Hannenhalli S, Ruppin E*, Erez A. Urea cycle dysregulation in cancer results in a pyrimidine rich mutation bias associated with enhanced response to immune checkpoint therapies. Cell
Lee JS, Das A, Jerby-Arnon L, Arafeh R, Auslander N, Davidson M, McGarry L, James D, Amzallag A, Park SG, Cheng K, Robinson W, Atias D, Stossel C, Buzhor E, Stein G, Waterfall JJ, Meltzer PS, Golan T, Hannenhalli S, Gottlieb E, Benes CH, Samuels Y, Shanks E, Ruppin E*. Harnessing synthetic lethality to predict the response to cancer treatment. Nature Communications
2017
Auslander N, Cunningham CE, Toosi BM, McEwen E, Yizhak K, Vizeacoumar FS, Parameswaran S, Gonen N, Freywald A, Vizeacoumar FJ, Ruppin E*. An integrated computational and experimental study uncovers FUT9 as a metabolic driver of colorectal cancer. Molecular Systems Biology
Ferber S, Tiram G, Sousa-Herves A, Eldar-Boock A, Krivitsky A, Scomparin A, Yeini E, Ofek P, Ben-Shushan D, Vossen LI, Licha K, Grossman R, Ram Z, Henkin J, Ruppin E*, Auslander N, Haag R, Calderón M, Satchi-Fainaro R. Co-targeting the tumor endothelium and P-selectin-expressing glioblastoma cells leads to a remarkable therapeutic outcome. eLIFE
Emons G, Spitzner M, Reineke S, Möller J, Auslander N, Kramer F, Beissbarth T, Wolff HA, Rave-Fränk M, Heßmann E, Gaedcke J, Ghadimi BM, Johnsen SA, Ried T, Grade M. Chemoradiotherapy resistance in colorectal cancer cells in mediated Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Molecular Cancer Research
2016
Auslander N#, Wagner A, Oberhardt M, Ruppin E*. Data-driven metabolic pathway compositions enhance cancer survival prediction. PLOS Computational Biology
Auslander N#, Yizhak K#, Weinstock A#, Budhu A, Tang W, Wang XW, Ambs S, Ruppin E*. A joint analysis of transcriptomic and metabolomic data uncovers enhanced enzyme-metabolite coupling in breast cancer. Scientific Reports