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Welcome Jambo Karibu Swagat

Joint Africa-India virtual conference (Bifx'11). Welcome Jambo Karibu Swagat Kavisha Ramdayal, Sundararajan V, Pritish Varadwaj, Mbandi Stanley, Jeff Bizzaro and Prash Suravajhala. Previous conferences. Theme-based conferences to regional based conferences.

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Welcome Jambo Karibu Swagat

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  1. Joint Africa-India virtual conference (Bifx'11) Welcome Jambo Karibu Swagat Kavisha Ramdayal, Sundararajan V, Pritish Varadwaj, Mbandi Stanley, Jeff Bizzaroand Prash Suravajhala

  2. Previous conferences Theme-based conferences to regional based conferences Afbix'09: African virtual Bioinformatics conference 2009 Inbix'10: Indian virtual Bioinformatics conference 2010 BSB series: Bioinformatics to Systems Biology Events and Tutorials: Perl, R and Bioconductor, Protein- Protein Interactions, Mitochondriomics Projects: 300+; 30,000 members * Talk available later

  3. About Theme: Bridging Science between Africa and India Keynote speakers: Simon Travers, Lalji Singh* and Invited speakers: Sharmila Bapat, Junaid Gamieldien, Nicki Tiffin*, (Arun Gupta) Jayaraman Valadi Select talks: From reviewed submissions Tutorial: Shail Nagpal on Gene Expression Virtual poster presentations and ample break to sip coffee! * Talk available later

  4. Submissions Broad thematic areas: Machine learning, Disease Biology, Software and Algorithms, Evolution and Phylogeny Submissions: 15 including one late-breaking Acceptance: 15 (one regulated submission) Acceptance confidence: 7/10 Countries: 11 Select talks: 4 while others as vitual posters

  5. Speakers

  6. Group Discussion/chat A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. ~ Leo Szilard

  7. Reviewers and Sub-reviewers* Thank you anonymous reviewers too! Tiratha Raj Singh, PhD Alfredo Benso, PhD Erich Grotewold , PhD Pandjassarame Kangueane, PhD DPS Verma, PhD Venkata Satagopa, PhD Louxin Zhang, PhD * List of sub-reviewers not including the speakers. The speakers have also been asked to judge the submissions.

  8. Happy conferencing :-) Questions? Registrations: edu@bioinformatics.org Technicalities: jeff@bioinformatics.org Help and assistance: prash@bioinformatics.org Prashbio – skype Moodle: http://bioinformatics.og/edu Reviews: www.easychair.org

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