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Bioinformatics in Africa:- Part 1

BioStar — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 09:04:01 -0600

The Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire was created by the N°72511 law of July 27th, 1972 under the Presidency of his Excellency Felix Houphouët Boigny and Professor Jacques Monod, then Leading of the Pasteur institute of Paris.

The objectives of the Bioinformatics pole are:

• Encourage the access to innovations in research and the best exploitation of research data management.

• Develop the critical spirit of the researchers around their axis of research.

• Bring an active help to the improvement of the public health while having for constant worries to feed it by research and the innovation.

• Start training researchers to use bioinformatics as an indispensable tool to research.

• Encourage interdisciplinary creating a network of scientific information available to the researchers of the institute and partners

Longterm training activities:

• To integrate the bioinformatics in the training programs of academic scientists.

• Development of West Africa Centre training in bioinformatics and genome data analysis.

Shortterm training activities:

The IPCI will organize in the month of May 2007 a yearly regional course of initiation and using genome data analysis with the participation of the Centre Biotechnologique de Sfax, Tunisia (Pr Ahmed Rebaï, Department of bioinformatics).

More at https://www.pasteur.ci/

Bioinformatics in Africa: Part5 - Nigeria

BioStar — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:13:47 -0600

Covenant University (CU)Ota:
Covenant University (with her enriching and growing stateoftheart laboratories in the area of science and technology, arts, business and social sciences) is presently the Best University in Nigeria (Private University category), based on the recent overall rating just concluded by the Nigeria University Commission (NUC). Recently, Covenant University has initiated the establishment of a Centre for Applied Biotech, BioInformatics and Microbiology (CBBM) to be situated at the University. The institute has been designed to be a PublicPrivate Partnership for a productive synergy b/w Academia, Industry and Government. The whole concept is still evolving and more details will be release soon. As regards CBBM, a dedicated computing lab is in plan, but even our computing capacity is presently enormous. In the department of Computer and Information Sciences, we have more than 250 Pentium 4 PCs set aside for teaching and research purposes. Furthermore, we have several moderate speed PCs at the Postgraduate research lab and our engineering departments and units. Our wet lab facilities is presently minimal (basic for teaching), the Centre requirement as it touches the wetlaboratories is also set to upgrade this to basic tools expected at an international centre of learning.

University of Ibadan (UIB)Ibadan:
There has been significant increase in the number of bioinformatics activities in Nigeria (and West Africa) since 2003 when the program was initiated by the West African Biotechnology Workshops Series (WABWS, http://www.wabw.org) at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (in collaboration with the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI, http:/www.sanbi.ac.za). Workshops that were open to scientists from all African countries have seen a very high number of applications from scientists based in West Africa. The encouraging desire to acquire cuttingedge skills to computational process data and extract useful knowledge from genome projects led to the interest of the West African Biotechnology Workshops (WABW) to develop an agenda to address the bioinformatics skills gap among scientists in West Africa. An increased commitment from agencies like NEPAD would be required in the provision of infrastructure to establish and sustain regional and national networks.

University of Ilorin (UIL)Ilorin:
The University of Ilorin was established in 1976 by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Bioinformatics activities started at the University in February 2003 with the establishment of the West African Bioinformatics Research Initiative (WABRI). However, progress has been rather slow due to inadequate funding. We are mainly engaged in Bioinformatics training at the introductory level and proteomics studies on various species of malaria parasites. Recently, we became interested in comparative genome analysis of various species of Plasmodium and the comparison of chloroquine sensitive and chloroquine resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Other activities and areas of interest can be seen on our website, http://www.wabri.org, although not all our proposed interests have been fully implemented due to our level of funding.

Training:
The University of Ilorin has introduced M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes in Computer Science (with options in Bioinformatics). The programme is based in the Department of Computer Science and emphasis is on the development of algorithms to solve problems in bioinformatics. The Covenant University offers M.Sc. and Ph.D in Computer Science with option in Bioinformatics (Computational Biology). Furthermore, through affiliated departments, the CBBM is been design to award Diploma and Degree certificates in Biotechnology.

Web sites and links: http://www.covenantuniversity.com http://www.run.edu.ng http://www.uniben.edu http://www.wabri.org http://www.wabw.org http://www.unilorin.edu.ng http://www.wabri.org http://www.asopah.org

Life of BI !!!

Jitendra Narayan — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:13:36 -0500

Hmm .. Don't worry you read it right .. this is not pi but bi ... "life of Bioinformatician(BI)".

Disclaimer: This cartoon is solely designed to create humour and fun, not to offend any PI, supervisor or student.

RA Bioinformatics at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 10:40:18 -0500

Opportunities available at Institute of Medical Genetics & Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi.

1) Senior Research Fellow under ICMR Project: M.Sc. (Life Sciences) with 2 years of experience (preferable in the field of Bioinformatics) or MBBS Degree.

2) Research Associate under ICMR Project: . Ph.D.(Life Science/Biotechnology/Bioinformatics) or equivalent degree or having 3 years of research, teaching and design and development experience after M.Tech with at least one research paper in science Citation Indexed (SCI) Journal.
Work experience in the area of Human genomics/Next Generation Sequencing data analysis/Big data genomics would be preferred.
Application link:

https://sgrh.com/joblist

Post Code: 2023, 2024

UK Genome Science Meeting, sept 2nd-4th, 2013

Poonam Mahapatra — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:03:21 -0500

Following the success of the last three years' UK Next Gen Sequencing meetings at Nottingham, the newly named UK Genome Science meeting aims to bring together experts from around the world to meet and discuss the current and future state of all aspects and applications of Next Generation Sequencing.

More at >> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/deepseq/events.aspx

Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network (NBGN)

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 08:29:40 -0500

This is to announce the second official conference of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network (NBGN). October 11-13,2021 at Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State and Zoom ( conference link to be announced soon

#NBGN21

www.nbgn21conference.com

Personalised Medicine - Animation

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:07:24 -0500

Two animated case scenarios set now and in the future. These highlight potential differences in the way patients are treated now, and how they might be treated as healthcare becomes more tailored.

33rd Annual Convention of Indian Association for Cancer Research from 13th to 15th February 2014

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:37:08 -0500

RGCB is organizing the 33rd Annual Convention of Indian Association for Cancer Research from 13th to 15th February 2014 with the theme "Discovery, Innovation and Translation in Cancer Research"

Kindly log on to conference website http://rgcb.res.in/IACR2014 for further details and timely updates and registration. We shall truly appreciate if the same be circulated among your friends, scholars and students encouraging them to participate in the meet.

http://210.212.237.38/iacrconference/

Opportunity at McDermott Center Bioinformatics Lab

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 09:56:39 -0500

Our team, composed of experts from diverse backgrounds including genetics, cancer biology, computer science, bioinformatics, and microbiology, stays current with evolving bioinformatics techniques. We offer consulting, customized service, and collaboration opportunities. We suggest visiting us to discuss your experiment design and results, as we can tailor our assistance to meet your specific research goals.

https://labs.utsouthwestern.edu/bioinformatics-lab/positions

What is the objective of BINC examination?

Neel — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:36:53 -0500

I personally did not understand the objective behind BINC examination. Is government only try to show off that they are doing something to promote Indian bioinformatics sector?

Moreover, It looks like BINC indirectly putting an extra burden to bioinformatician, mentally and financially.