African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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Location | Africa |
The African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB) is a non-profit professional association dedicated to the advancement of bioinformatics and computational biology in Africa. Transformed from the African Bioinformatics Network (ABioNET), ASBCB was established in February 2004 at a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.[citation needed] The Society serves as an international forum and resource devoted to developing competence and expertise in bioinformatics and computational biology in Africa. It complements its activities with those of other international and national societies, associations and institutions, public and private, that have similar aims. It also promotes the standing of African bioinformatics and computational biology in the global arena through liaison and cooperation with other international bodies. It is an affiliated regional group of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).[citation needed]
Objectives
- Identify, promote and establish opportunities for networking.
- Encourage and develop bioinformatics and computational biology nodes.
- Increase awareness and promote the use of bioinformatics and computational biology.
- Facilitate access to bioinformatics and computational biology infrastructure.
- Promote bioinformatics and computational biology education.[citation needed]
The Society also has good cooperation with the newly re-established African BIOinformatics NETwork (ABioNet). The ABioNET is in the process of development of a programme of training and research linking key sites of African Bioinformatics to provide regional capacity development.[citation needed]
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- Sequence databases: GenBank, European Nucleotide Archive, DNA Data Bank of Japan and China National GeneBank
- Secondary databases: UniProt, database of protein sequences grouping together Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL and Protein Information Resource
- Other databases: BioNumbers, Protein Data Bank, Ensembl, InterPro, KEGG, and Gene Ontology
- Specialised genomic databases: BOLD, Saccharomyces Genome Database, FlyBase, VectorBase, WormBase, Rat Genome Database, PHI-base, Arabidopsis Information Resource, GISAID and Zebrafish Information Network
- Server: ExPASy
- Rosalind (education platform)
- Broad Institute
- Computational Biology Department (CBD)
- Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI)
- Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS)
- DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
- Flatiron Institute
- J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)
- US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- Japanese Institute of Genetics
- Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC)
- Philippine Genome Center (PGC)
- Scripps Research
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute
- Whitehead Institute
- African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB)
- Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-AR)
- European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
- International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC)
- International Society for Biocuration (ISB)
- International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
- Student Council (ISCB-SC)
- Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB)
- Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi)
- Basel Computational Biology Conference ([BC2])
- European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)
- Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)
- International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB)
- International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB)
- ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics
- Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB)
- Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)
- CRAM format
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- FASTQ format
- NeXML format
- Nexus format
- Pileup format
- SAM format
- Stockholm format
- VCF format
- GFF format
- GTF format
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