A BecA-ILRI Hub Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellow undertakes a practical exercise at a bioinformatics workshop.

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Participants in the Advanced Bioinformatics annual training workshop conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU) in Nairobi, Kenya October 7th - 18th, 2013

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Figure 3 from Maximum Likelihood Analyses of 3,490 rbcL Sequences - Scalability of Comprehensive Inference Versus Group-Specific Taxon Sampling Published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Original full Poster available here from the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB)

Figure 3 from EvoluCode - Evolutionary Barcodes as a Unifying Framework for Multilevel Evolutionary Data Published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Participants in the Advanced Bioinformatics annual training workshop conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU) in Nairobi, Kenya October 7th - 18th, 2013

Photo credit: BecA-ILRI/Tim Hall

Dr Laura Purdie, PhD and BecA-ILRI Hub Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellows at a bioinformatics workshop.

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The introductory workshop in bioinformatics and genomics held at ILRI, Nairobi 24-28 February 2014, was conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and Reed and Lewis & Clark Colleges. The workshop was facilitated by Prof Sarah Schaack, Assistant Professor of Biology, Reed College, USA . (photo credit BecA-ILRI Hub/Ethel Makila)

Belgium - Brussels - 10 March 2014 - Innovation Convention 2014 - Hearing your genes evolve - Deirdre GRIBBIN , Composer - Sarah TEICHMANN , Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ©EC/CE

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BecA-ILRI Hub Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellows at a bioinformatics workshop.

Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI Hub/Tim Hall

The introductory workshop in bioinformatics and genomics held at ILRI, Nairobi 24-28 February 2014, was conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and Reed and Lewis & Clark Colleges. The workshop was facilitated by Prof Sarah Schaack, Assistant Professor of Biology, Reed College, USA . (photo credit BecA-ILRI Hub/Ethel Makila)

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UNC Charlotte

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Figure 1 from Estrogen Exposure, Metabolism, and Enzyme Variants in a Model for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Published in Cancer Informatics

Joe and Bank hard at work. The Centre for Applied Genomics, in the Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, Toronto.

Voigtländer VF-101

Color-Skopar 40mm f/2.8

Ilford XP2 Super, ISO 400

Developing and scanning by Aden Camera, Toronto. I am really liking this film.

By Jeremy Goecks

Adam Foye's cake from his mother after the competition

Figure 2 from Use of Gene Expression Profiles of Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes to Distinguish BRCA1 Mutation Carriers in High Risk Breast Cancer Families Published in Cancer Informatics

Participants on the final day of the Advanced Bioinformatics annual training workshop conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU) in Nairobi, Kenya on October 18th, 2013

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Figure 3 from Automated Detection of Conformational Epitopes Using Phage Display Peptide Sequences Published in Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 21JAN15 - Nick Goldman , Research Group Leader and Senior Scientist, The Goldman Group, EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom captured during the session Brain-Based Chips and DNA Hard Drives in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 21, 2015.

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/Benedikt von Loebell

Figure 5A from Mouse 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 2 for Human Application - Homology Modeling, Structural Analysis and Ligand-Receptor Interaction Published in Cancer Informatics

Students in the biology class, Genomics and Bioinformatics, prepare their final projects in the Scripps Landstrum Laboratory at Knox College. Photo by Peter Bailley.

Participants in the Advanced Bioinformatics annual training workshop conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU) in Nairobi, Kenya October 7th - 18th, 2013

Photo credit: BecA-ILRI/Tim Hall

By Carsten Görg

BecA Research Scientist Dr. Rob Skilton after hosting a workshop on bioinformatics for ABCF Fellows.

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Figure 8 from Characterization and Evolution of the Cell Cycle-Associated Mob Domain-Containing Proteins in Eukaryotes Published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Belgium - Brussels - 10 March 2014 - Innovation Convention 2014 - Press point 3 Deirdre GRIBBIN , Composer - Sarah TEICHMANN , Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ©EC/CE

Students from the MS Biotechnology and Bioinformatics emphasis for Stem Cell Technology and Laboratory Management.

From left to right:

Front row: Jennifer Jones, Dr. Ching-Hua Wang, Anukriti Sharma, Shruti Iyer, Yifeng Yuan.

Back row: Elaheh Mohammad Asghari, Adrien Larsen, Ryder Paredes, Mahalakshmi Sridharan, Michael Silva, Eugene Babcock (not in emphasis), William Ferguson.

Fly Fishing & Treating Cancer: Same, Same but Different!

Attendees at the October 2013 Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop with BecA-ILRI Hub Acting Technology Manager Timothy Kingori (far left)

The Advanced Bioinformatics annual training workshop conducted by BecA-ILRI Hub in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU) in Nairobi, Kenya October 7th - 18th, 2013

Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI/Tim Hall

Dictionary of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology edited by John M. Hancock and Marketa J. Zvelebil. A handy reference book fro any bioinformatician to have on their bookshelf.

isbn:0471436224 www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471436224

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By Alan F. Scott

Working on nodes for the Xserve cluster at ITC-ACHS at the University of Virginia.

Effect of the Hxt on the transcription of other Fusarium oxysporum sugar transporter genes during consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) of wheat straw/bran.Wild type fungus 11C, Hxt-silenced mutant pSilent-1-Hxt-3 and overexpression mutant pBARGPE1-Hxt-6 were aerobically cultured on wheat straw/bran (10?1 ratio) and RT-PCR was conducted using RNA isolated from samples harvested 24 h post-inoculation. (A) Transcript accumulation in RNA extracts was quantified relative to that of the housekeeping gene ?-tubulin (FOXG_06228.2) by 2?-??Ct method, where ??Ct?=?(Ct, Target gene - Ct, ?-tubulin). Results are based on two experiments, each with three replicates per strain/mutant per medium. Bars indicate the SEM (LSD0.05?=?0.015) (B) A phylogenetic tree was constructed based on the protein sequence of 20 F. oxysporum strain 4287 sugar transporters. Protein sequences were aligned using European Bioinformatics Institutes?s ClustalW2 tool (www.ebi.ac.uk) [62] and a distance tree of 100 bootstrapped data sets was generated by using the Phylogeny.fr program and the neighbor-joining method [64]. Arrows indicated the three genes alluded to in part (A) above that were affected by Hxt expression.

Belgium - Brussels - 10 March 2014 - Innovation Convention 2014 - Hearing your genes evolve - Deirdre GRIBBIN , Composer - Sarah TEICHMANN , Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ©EC/CE

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 21JAN15 - Nick Goldman , Research Group Leader and Senior Scientist, The Goldman Group, EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom captured during the session Brain-Based Chips and DNA Hard Drives in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 21, 2015.

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/Benedikt von Loebell

Figure 4 from Candidate Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers for Arsenic Responsiveness of Protein Targets Published in Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

BecA-ILRI Hub Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellows at a bioinformatics workshop.

Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI Hub/Tim Hall

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BecA-ILRI Hub Research Technician Moses Moses Njahira gets the attention of Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund Fellows at a bioinformatics workshop.

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Fly Fishing & Cancer Treatment: Same, Same But Different!