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ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2017

DETAILED PROGRAM


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*Proposed Programs. Agendas subject to change.

Tuesday, October 10
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SESSION 1: H3ABioNet highlights
Chairs:
Jonathan Kayondo & Sumir Panji
2:00 pm - 7:30 pm

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2:00 pm 2:30 pm ISCB-Africa ASBCB Bioinformatics Conference Welcome
2:30 pm 3:30 pm Keynote - BF Francis Ouellette
Open Data is Essential for Genomics
3:30 pm 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm 4:20 pm Variants calling optimization: parameter sweep of the GATK best practices pipeline (Azza Ahmed)
4:20 pm 4:40 pm Comparative analysis of existing pipelines for assessment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biodiversity in natural and commercial Rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) and Honeybush (Cyclopia intermedia) soil samples (Herna de Wit)
4:40 pm 5:00 pm A Metagenomic Approach to the Characterization of the Microbiomes of Sickle Cell Disease-associated Leg Ulcers (Deborah Fasesan)
5:00 pm 5:20 pm Integrative analysis of cervical cancer multi-omics data: Towards novel biomarkers discovery (Somia Mohammed)
5:20 pm 5:40 pm DREAM of Malaria: an open ecosystem to predict drug sensitivity in malaria parasites (Amel Ghouila)
5:40 pm 6:00 pm Designing a course model for distance-based online bioinformatics training in Africa: the H3ABioNet experience (Shaun Aron)
6:00 pm 7:30 pm Welcome Reception and Poster Viewing
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Wednesday, October 11
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SESSION 2: Host/pathogen interactions and dynamics of infectious diseases
Chairs: Nicola Mulder & Segun Fatumo
8:45 am - 12:30 pm

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8:45 am 9:00 am Morning Welcome
9:00 am 10:00 am Keynote - Julie Makani
How is Bioinformatics Influencing Health and Research in Africa? Experience from Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania
10:00 am 10:30 am Break
10:30 am 10:50 am The fecal microbiota of scavenging pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) are potential reservoir of pathogens of public health importance (Kilaza  Mwaikono)
10:50 am 11:10 am New Bioinformatics-based Discrimination Formulas for Differentiation of Thalassemia Traits from Iron Deficiency Anemia (Abdul Hafeez)
11:10 am 11:30 am Protein Complexes of RNA-Seq gene expression data revealed functions enriched in the invasion of Red Blood Cells by Plasmodium falciparum (Soyemi Jumoke)
11:30 am 11:50 am Leveraging viral phylodynamics to inform spatiotemporal transmission of viral infectious disease in Africa: 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 in Africa (Fredrick Nindo)
11:50 am 12:10 pm Endosymbiosis, origins and gene expression in the photosynthetic protist Euglena gracilis (ThankGod Ebenezer)
12:10 pm 12:30 pm Poster Flash Talks - A-067,B-002,B-010
12:30 pm 2:30 pm Lunch break and poster viewing
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SESSION 3: Bioinformatics of human genetics and population studies
Chairs:
Dan Masiga & Ruben Cloete
2:30 am - 4:00 pm

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2:30 pm 2:50 pm A bioinformatics protocol for analyzing cancer patient survival based on transcriptome datasets (Gaston Mazandu)
2:50 pm 3:10 pm A multi-scenario genome-wide medical population genetics simulation framework (FractalSIM) (Jacquiline Mugo)
3:10 pm 3:30 pm A genome-wide association study of cardiometabolic traits in a sub-Saharan Africa population (Segun Fatumo)
3:30 pm 3:50 pm Designing the H3Africa genotyping array (Ananyo Choudhury)
3:50 pm 4:10 pm A Uganda innovation hub for deep analytics, disease surveillance, discovery science and translation (Beatrice Dhaala)
4:10 pm 4:30 pm Break
4:30 pm 6:00 pm Panel discussion – Open Science
6:30pm 8:00pm Open Science Happy Hour - Networking and group discussions event
The theme will be Open research in Africa: barriers and potential solutions
Pizza and drinks provided by Mozilla Science by Mozilla
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Thursday, October 12
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SESSION 4: Tools, Pipelines, databases and resource development
Chairs:
Alan Christoffels & Amel Ghouila
8:45 am - 12:30 pm

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8:45 am 9:00 am Morning Welcome
9:00 am 10:00 am Keynote - Dan Masiga
Towards elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): Leaving genomics behind?
10:00 am 10:30 am Break
10:30 am 10:50 am Insilico Identification of Protein-Coding and Non-Coding Regions in Next-Generation Technology Transcriptome Sequence Data: A Machine Learning Approach (Olaitan Awe)
10:50 am 11:10 am Gene Regulatory Network Sparseness with Fuzzified Adjusted Rand Index (FARI) (Taiwo Adigun)
11:10 am 11:30 am COMBAT TB, an integrated environment for TB sequence data storage, analysis and visualisation (Peter van Heusden)
11:30 am 11:50 am Ensemble Clustering Algorithms: An Experimental Evaluation on Gene Expression Data (Itunuoluwa Isewon)
11:50 am 12:10 pm Reproducible bioinformatics workflows for heterogeneous African computational environments (Mamana Mbiyavanga)
12:10 pm 12:30 pm Enabling the processing of bioinformatic workflows where data is located through the use of cloud and container technologies (Eugene De Beste)
12:30 pm 2:30 pm Lunch break and poster viewing
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SESSION 5: Search and design of vaccines and drugs
Chairs:
Alia Ben Kahla & Julie Makani
2:30 am - 4:00 pm

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2:30 pm 2:50 pm Structural and functional effects of nucleotide variation on the Tuberculosis drug metabolizing enzyme human arylamine N-acetyltransferase 1 (Ruben Cloete)
2:50 pm 3:10 pm Chemical Descriptors Feature Selection Method Using Genetic Algorithms For Building Efficient QSAR Models (Mahmoud ElHefnawy)
3:10 pm 3:30 pm Application of a prognostic correlate of TB disease risk in a screen-and-treat clinical trial to prevent TB disease (Stanley Kimbung)
3:30 pm 3:50 pm Poster Flash Talks - B-014, B-024, B-032
3:50 pm 4:10 pm Common sequence variants affect molecular function more than rare variants (Burkhard Rost)
4:10 pm 4:30 pm Break
4:30 pm   Closing Ceremonies
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Friday, October 13
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9:00 am 4:00 pm Workshops
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