1 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY GEORGE S. WISE FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES GRADUATE SCHOOL Field Computational Biology Subject The Influence of Chromatin Modifiers on Transcription Submitted by Israel Steinfeld This work was carried out in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a MSc. degree in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University. Advisors Prof. Martin Kupiec Prof. Ron Shamir October 2007