Africa France Bioinformatics: Kenya

Institutions:

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)

Main Activities:

Genomics and post-genomics
Monitor and prevent diseases such as HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Buruli ulcer, hemorrhagic fevers
Genomic analysis Proteomics
Structural Bioinformatics

Recent Publications:

Simon P. Graham, Roger Pellé, Yoshikazu Honda, Duncan M. Mwangi, Nyerhovwo J. Tonukari, Mat Yamage, E. Jane Glew, Etienne P. de Villiers, Trushar Shah, Richard Bishop, Evelyne Abuya, Elias Awino, James Gachanja, Anthony E. Luyai, Ferdinand Mbwika, Anthony M. Muthiani, David M. Ndegwa Moses Njahira, John K. Nyanjui, Fredrick O. Onono, Julius Osaso, Rosemary M. Saya, Claude Wildmann, Claire M. Fraser, Ian Maudlin, Malcolm J. Gardner, Subhash P. Morzaria, Sheena Loosmore Sarah C. Gilbert, JeanChristophe Audonnet, Pierre van der Bruggen, Vishvanath Nene & Evans L. N. Taracha. (2006)
Theileria parva candidate vaccine antigens recognized by immune bovine cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:3286-3291.

Trushar Shah, Etienne de Villiers, Vishvanath Nene, Brian Hass, Evans Taracha, Malcolm J Gardner, Clare Sansom, Roger Pelle, Richard Bishop. (2005)
Using the transcriptome to annotate the genome revisited: application of massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS).
Gene 17:366:104-108.

Richard Bishop, Trushar Shah, Roger Pelle, David Hoyle, Ter ry Pearson, Lee Haines, Andrew Brass, Helen Hulme, Simon, P. Graham, Evans L. N. Taracha, Charles Lu, Brain Hass, Jennifer Wortman, Owen White, Malcolm J. Gardner, Vishvanath Nene and Etienne P. de Villiers. (2005)
Analysis of the transcriptome of the protozoan Theileria parva using MPSS reveals that the majority of genes are transcriptionally active in the schizont stage.
Nucleic Acids Research 25:5503-5511.

Contacts:

Etienne DE VILLIERS
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
Phone: (254) 20 4223000
E-Mail: e.villiers@cgiar.org

Daniel MASIGA
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnilogy
Kenyatta University
P.O. Box 43844, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
Phone: (254) 810901-12
E-Mail: dmasiga@icipe.org

Francis J. MULAA
Department of Biochemistry
University of Nairobi
P.O. Box 30197, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
Phone: (254) 204442534 or (254) 204441186
E-Mail: mulaafj@uonbi.ac.ke

Steven Ger NYANJOM
International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology
P.O. Box 20772, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
Phone: (254) 8632000
E-Mail: snyanjom@icipe.org

Mailing list Bioinformatics in Africa report This report was written by Alia Benkahla, Winston Hide and several african researchers. Most of them were invited at JOBIM 2005 thanks to the CNRS - MAE bioinformatics program, and belong to the ASBCB.

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