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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato April 25, 2024 As night fell on July 20th, 2014, genomicist Christian Happi was at home with his family in Lagos, Nigeria when he received a phone call he would never forget. On October 20th, 2014, as Ebola continued to spread in Guinea and in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone, WHO declared Nigeria free of Ebola.

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Kickstarting the use of AI for biotechs: part two

Drug Target Review

5 Several major technology areas are not included above, such as cheminformatics and bioinformatics. The New York Times [Internet] 2014 [updated 2024 ; cited 2024 May] Available from: [link] 5 Agre JR, Gordon KD, Vassiliou MS. For those looking to learn the basics of data quality, a good start is the 7 C’s framework.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

Other genomic databases were retooled for the huge datasets that COVID was generating, such as the Cloud Institute for Microbial Bioinformatics, begun in 2014 and rechristened the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium ( COG-UK ). And so variants alpha, delta, omicron emerged,” write the authors of the Frontiers in Science paper.

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A scientist devotes her career to tackling inequity in genomics

Broad Institute

When she defended her PhD in December 2014, Martin hoped to use what she’d learned about population genetics to address the health disparities she’d seen as she moved across the country. Alicia Martin and attendees of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust/GINGER Bioinformatics training in Kilifi, Kenya in September 2018.

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Early evidence and emerging trends: How AI is shaping drug discovery and clinical development

Drug Target Review

His leadership has driven international commercial success in areas including image analysis, data management, bioinformatics, advanced clinical trial data analysis leveraging machine learning and federated learning. Ophthalmology 121(11):2081.90, 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2024.104009. 2024.104009. Tham YC, et al.

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United Therapeutics Announces Agreement To Acquire Priority Review Voucher

The Pharma Data

Tyvaso DPI incorporates the dry powder formulation technology and Dreamboat inhalation device technology used in MannKind’s Afrezza ® (insulin human) Inhalation Powder product, approved by the FDA in 2014.

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Computational biology and bioinformatics

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Computational biology and bioinformatics By lcopelan@broadinstitute.org February 13, 2025 Computational biology and bioinformatics Noor Pratap Singh Talks Search - Any -Fall 2025Spring 2025Fall 2024Spring 2024Fall 2023Spring 2023Fall 2022Spring 2022Fall 2021Spring 2021Fall 2020Spring 2020Fall 2019Spring 2019Fall 2018Spring 2018Fall 2017Spring 2017Fall (..)