What?

The H3ABioNet bioinformatics webinar series  provides a forum to present and showcase ongoing projects of H3ABioNet consortium members working within the broad area of bioinformatics and computational genomics and their applications to various aspects of genomic medicine.

Why?

Through broad participation and knowledge-sharing, the webinar series fosters the exchange of ideas and the building of new collaborations across multiple disciplines within and outside Africa.

When and where does this group meet?

Every third Wednesday of the month at 3 PM CAT.

Adobe Connect HB3ABIONET meeting room: 

Seminar Date: Wednesdays 
Seminar time: 1pm UTC / 2pm WAT / 3pm CAT / 4pm EAT

URL to join the seminar: http://meeting.uct.ac.za/h3abionet-webinars/

Below are the past webinars:

• From the continent to households, malaria parasite clans, interconnectivity, and survival strategies with Assoc. Prof Alfred Amambua-Ngwa. Link
• The demongraphic and adaptive history of central African hunter-gatherers and farmers with Dr. Etienne Patin. Link.
• Exploration and sharing of global health data using the ClinEpiDB platform - Prof David Roos Link.
• The FMI computational biology core facility - Dr. Michael Stdler. Link
• Increasing bioinformatics uptake in Africa through unique learning models - Ms Verena Ras. Link
• How H3ABioNet leverages open science for sustained impact - Caleb Kibet. Link
• Capacity building strategies to promote equity in genomics research and global health. Link
• Challenges for Top-Down Identification of Proteoforms - David Tabb. Link
• Population descriptors in genomics research: what classifications are used? - Dr Shawneequa Callier. Link
• Leveraging single-cell genomics to understand COVID-19 - Dr Alex K. Shalek. Link
• Inferring genetic structure and ancestry using haplotype-based models. - Dr Garrett Hellenthal. Link
• The Carpentries: An Open Access Community - Dr Angelique Trusler. Link
• Cancer genomics – a driver for transforming diagnosis and treatment of Prostate cancer - Dr Baichoo. Link
• GATK for Microbes - Bhanu Gandham. Link
• Genomics characterization and surveillance of microbial threats in West Africa - Christian Happi. Link
• Respecting transparency, autonomy and choice in consent processes to support sustainable science. Link
• Massively scalable FAIR workflows with Nextflow and Tower - Dr Evan Floden. Link
• Statistical and Computational Challenges in the Analysis of the Human Microbiome - Prof. Susan Holmes. Link
• Community Standards to Integrate Cohort Data at Scale - Dr Melanie Courtot. Link
• Introduction to Biomedical Text Mining with its Application to Biocuration - Dr Chen. Link
• Viral-ngs: cloud compute for H3Africa’s West African viral genomics centres - Dr Daniel Park. Link
• Open Science Seminar at EANBiT Virtual Training. Link
• Putting the R in Bioinformatics with Bioconductor - Assoc Professor Matt Ritchie. Link
• Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) - Prof Alan Christoffels. - Link
• Creating and using genome graphs with GenGraph - Dr. Jon Ambler. Link
• Hail: A Scalable Tool for Genomic Analysis - Dr Kumar Veerapen. Link
• DNA Day H3Africa NHGRI Speaker Exchange Webinar. Link
• The Opportunity In African Genome Resource For Precision Medicine - Dr. Segun Fatumo. Link
• Integrated in silico approaches towards drug discovery - Prof Ozlem Bishop. Link
• H3ABioNet webinars: Genomics analysis with GATK - Eric Banks. Link
• H3ABioNet Seminar: Pathogen Data hubs - Dr Guy Cochrane. Link
• H3aBioNet webinars_Symptom evolution following the emergence of maize streak virus - Link
• The Impact of Sickle in Africa - Julie Makani. Link
• The Commons Alliance - Brian O'Connor. Link
• Machine learning approaches used in Microbiome and Metagenome analysis - Dr Chris Fields. Link
• Community efforts in large scale genomics: GA4GH and friends - Assoc. Professor Oliver Hofmann. Link
• Cancer Genomics: What We Can Learn from Africa - Prof Timothy R. Rebbeck. Link
• First insights into the metagenome of Egyptian mummies using next-generation sequencing. Link
• Intellectual property and copyright for academics - Thomas King. Link
• "Pharmacogenetics in Africa opportunities for precision medicine" - Prof Masimirembwa. Link
• "Anticipating the wave of H3Africa genomic data" - Prof. Michèle Ramsay (1st Feb 2018). Link

WHAT?

H3ABioNet have initiated a monthly REDCap Africa community online call for all REDCap users and administrators in Africa. Initially focusing on usage in genomics research studies mainly for phenotype data collection but we are open to suggestions and the needs of the general REDCap Africa community.

WHY?

H3ABioNet will be supporting the use of REDCap for clinical/phenotype data collection by the H3Africa Consortium studies. This is due to REDCap’s ease of setup and use, the need to standardise data collection methods where possible in our consortium, no charge and the rapidly expanding use of REDCap internationally. We have some long-standing REDCap users but a greater number of “newbies” and we have received eager, positive feedback when suggesting this forum for the sharing of ideas and solutions in REDCap use and application in the genomics research field. In conjunction with REDCap Africa running from Wits University we are hoping to build the REDCap community in Africa to share ideas, provide support for each other and enhance the way we use REDCap.

WHEN DOES THIS GROUP MEET?

12:00-13:00 GMT (14:00-15:00 CAT), last Wednesday of every month (starting 28th November 2018).

INTERESTED IN JOINING THIS GROUP?

Contact Irma or Katherine (details below)