Institutions:

Institut Pasteur de Tunis (IPT)
Centre de Biotechnologie de Sfax (CBS)

Main activities:

Data analysis: genome and expression (microarray and EST)
Modeling: protein interaction networks and systems biology

Recent publications:

Kharrat N, Ayadi I. and Rebaï A. (2006)
Sample size computation for association studies using case-parents design.
Journal of Genetics.

Aifa S, Miled N, Frikha F, Aniba MR, Svensson SP and Rebai A. (2006)
Electrostatic interactions of peptides flanking the tyrosine kinase domain in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) provides a model for intracellular dimerization and autophosphorylation.
Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics. 62:1036-1043.

Adjaye J, R Herwig, D Hermann, W Wruck, A Benkahla, TC Brink, M Nowak, JW Carnwath, C Hultschig, H Niemann, and H Lehrach. (2004).
Cross-species hybridisation of human and bovine orthologous genes on high density cDNA microarrays.
BMC Genomics 5:83.

International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. (2004)
Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome.
Nature 431:931-945. (Consortium authors: A. Benkahla is in the German group)

Contacts:

Alia BENKAHLA
Group of Living Organism Genomics
Laboratoire d'Immunopathologie, Vaccinologie et Génétique Moléculaire
Institute Pasteur of Tunis
13 place Pasteur BP74 Belvédère
1002 Tunis, Tunisia
Phone: (216) 71 843755 Ext: 464
E-Mail: Alia.Benkahla@pasteur.rns.tn

Ahmed REBAÏ
Service de Bioinformatique
Centre de Biotechnology de Sfax
BP K 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
Phone: (216) 98817294 - (216) 74440816
E-Mail: ahmed.rebai@cbs.rnrt.tn

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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