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ArticleF1000Research2020

Highlights of the 3rd ISCB Africa Student Council Symposium 2019 in Ghana.

Wisdom A Akurugu, Albert Doughan, Abdul-Rahman Adamu Bukari, Mahtaab Hayat, Emmanuel James San, Hannah Nyarkoah Nyarko, John Mogaka, Mwangi Harrison Ndung'u, Farzana Rahman, Sayane Shome

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Article in F1000Research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Wisdom A AkuruguDepartment of Integrative Biomedical Science, IDM, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, University of Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9994-1422
Albert DoughanDepartment of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-0152-9999
Abdul-Rahman Adamu BukariDepartment of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0923-3893
Mahtaab HayatSydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Emmanuel James SanKwazulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform (KRISP), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Hannah Nyarkoah NyarkoDepartment of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana.
John MogakaDiscipline of Public Health, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Mwangi Harrison Ndung'uBiochemistry Department, Center for Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, HEP Bioinformatics Consultants LTD, Nairobi, Kenya.
Farzana RahmanSchool of Natural and Applied Science, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4785-5845
Sayane ShomeBioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7959-470X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The article elaborates on the program highlights of the 3rd African Student Council Symposium 2019. The one-day symposium was held in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, on 11 November 2019 during the 6th joint international bioinformatics conference of the ISCB and ASBCB. It consisted of three sessions that included keynote talks by Prof Christine Orengo and Dr. Amel Ghouila, and seven selected student speaker talks from different areas of bioinformatics. The students benefited from networking and learning about ongoing research work by their peers hailing from different countries of the African region. The symposium proved to be pivotal to strengthen connections in the African bioinformatics student community.

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Computational BiologyStudentsCongresses as TopicGhanaHumansUniversitiesAfricaASBCBBioinformaticsGhanaISCBStudent Council Symposium

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PMID32518632
PMCPMC7255899

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