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	<title><![CDATA[BOL: Bioinformatics in Africa: Part3 - Mali]]></title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2021 13:28:44 -0600</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics in Africa: Part3 - Mali]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>International&nbsp;Center&nbsp;for&nbsp;Excellence&nbsp;in&nbsp;Research&nbsp;(ICER):</p><p>The&nbsp;ICER&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;research&nbsp;center&nbsp;composed&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;following&nbsp;three&nbsp;programs: 1. The&nbsp;Malaria&nbsp;Research&nbsp;and&nbsp;Training&nbsp;Center&nbsp;&shy;&nbsp;Parasitology&nbsp;Group,&nbsp; 2. The&nbsp;Malaria&nbsp;Research&nbsp;and&nbsp;Training&nbsp;Center&nbsp;&shy;&nbsp;Entomology&nbsp;Group&nbsp; 3. The&nbsp;SEREFO&nbsp;Group.</p><p>The&nbsp;first&nbsp;two&nbsp;programs&nbsp;develop&nbsp;biomedical&nbsp;researches&nbsp;in&nbsp;malaria,&nbsp;Filariasis&nbsp;and&nbsp;Leishmaniasis.&nbsp;The&nbsp; third&nbsp;program&nbsp;develops&nbsp;biomedical&nbsp;researches&nbsp;in&nbsp;tuberculosis&nbsp;and&nbsp;HIV.</p><p>Bioinformatics&nbsp;was&nbsp;introduced&nbsp;recently&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;ICER&nbsp;and&nbsp;is&nbsp;constantly&nbsp;growing.&nbsp;The&nbsp;ICER&nbsp;has&nbsp;one&nbsp; team,&nbsp;headed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Sidy&nbsp;SOUMARE,&nbsp;which&nbsp;supports&nbsp;the&nbsp;three&nbsp;programmes&nbsp;in&nbsp;all&nbsp;their&nbsp;needs&nbsp;in&nbsp; informatics&nbsp;and&nbsp;bioinformatics.&nbsp;This&nbsp;team&nbsp;can&nbsp;beneficiate&nbsp;from&nbsp;some&nbsp;computational&nbsp;facilities&nbsp;(4&nbsp; blast&nbsp;servers,&nbsp;15&nbsp;other&nbsp;servers&nbsp;and&nbsp;around&nbsp;200&nbsp;terminals),&nbsp;but&nbsp;the&nbsp;ICER&nbsp;staff&nbsp;needs&nbsp;some&nbsp;training&nbsp;in&nbsp; order&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;able&nbsp;to&nbsp;administrate&nbsp;these&nbsp;facilities.</p><p>Research&nbsp;Interest&nbsp;and&nbsp;Activities: The&nbsp;following&nbsp;are&nbsp;the&nbsp;present&nbsp;areas&nbsp;of&nbsp;research&nbsp;interest: 1. Functional&nbsp;genomics 2. Analysis&nbsp;of&nbsp;microarray&nbsp;data 3. Interaction&nbsp;between&nbsp;the&nbsp;vector&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;parasite.</p>]]></description>
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