We are proud to organize the: 14th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology SANBI, the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 1 to 5 Sept. 2008. February 2008.

Two PhD and Two Masters positions in HIV bioinformatics for South African students at SANBI/UWC, Cape Town. January 2008.

Material for the HIV Data Management and Data Mining Workshop in FioCruz, Salvador, Brazil. October 2007.

A recent publication by R. Gifford, T. de Oliveira, A. Rambaut et al. in Journal of Virology describes how a modified version of the REGA HIV-1 subtyping tool can be used to fine-scalling classification of HIV-1 sequences. September 2007.

Special Lecture 6 of Nov 2007 - Death in the arms of science (La scienza nel braccio della morte) Palazzo Ducale, Genova Festival della Scienza, Italy.  John Bohannon and Declan Butler (Science and Nature journalists) interview V. Colizzi, T. de Oliveira, L. Montagnier, O. Pybus and R. Roberts on their scientific publications on the case of HIV and HCV outbreaks in Benghazi, Libya. September 2007.


Post-graduate opportunities in the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) in 2008. It includes oportunitites in many areas of bioinformatics with a special focus on health related pathogens, such as HIV/AIDS. September 2007.

Advanced Viral Evolutionary Workshop - SANBI/UWC, Cape Town, South Africa. 17 to 18 of September 2007.

Great news! The Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor accused of causing an HIV outbreak in Libya were released. An editorial in Nature (High noon in Libya) highlight the importance of the scientific paper by de Oliveira, Pybus, Rambaut and colleagues in bringing both political and scientific pressure to resolve the case.
 
BioAfrica HIV proteomics is cited by the SwissProt database as an important web resource for HIV-1 proteins.  Our resource is used by SwissProt to provide information on HXB2 proteins.
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The 13th International Virus Bioinformatics Workshop in Lisbon, Portugal, 9 to 14 of September 2007.

Introduction to HIV Phylogenetics Workshop. Durban, South Africa. 13-15 August 2007. July 2007. 

BioAfrica website's main developer Dr. Tulio de Oliveira has returned to South Africa to take up a faculty  position at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute. Feb 2007.

A recent paper in Nature by the developers of BioAfrica determines the origin of the HIV outbreak in Libya.  news on Feb 2007.

13th International Virus Bioinformatics Workshop in Portugal, September 2007. news on Feb 2007.

Bioinformatics of African Pathogens and Disease Vectors Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, 27 May to 2 Jun 2007. news on Feb 2007.

October 2006 - The release of the Virus Genotyping Tools allow fast and accurate classification of virus’ sequences using phylogenetic methods.

The REGA HIV Subtyping Tool version 2.0 was expanded to allow the classification of HIV-2. Other new  features include the construction of a figure of HIV genome, identification of recombinant fragments and a detailed XML results report.

The new OXFORD Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C genotyping tools were developed in collaboration with virus evolutionary experts, and can be used to identify new recombinant sequences.

REGA HIV-1 Subtyping tool in the news: "Assessment of automated genotyping protocols as tools for surveillance of HIV-1 genetic diversity." AIDS July 2006.

"Like a one-stop shop, BioAfrica has something for everyone." BioTechniques website review

BlastServer - A program that allows the user to upload a custom library in FASTA format, and then search it using blast. June 2006.

Report I 2006 - BioAfrica has matured as an important web-based resource for information on HIV and Bioinformatics. March 2006.

The 12th International workshop will host a special HIV Data Mining Module. Lectures in this module include: Robert Shafer, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Tulio de Oliveira, Hendrik Blockeel, Koen Deforche.  February 2006.

BioAfrica report 2005. New design, REGA subtyping tool, future objectives. November 2005

The REGA subtyping tool published in the Bioinformatics Journal as an open access article. Free Full Text manuscript available for download. November 2005

BlastAlign is a program that uses blast to align problematic nucleotide sequences. E.g. With large indels, insertions and/or deletions. November 2005

The Rega HIV-1 Subtyping Tool. This tool is designed to use phylogenetic methods in order to identify the subtype of a specific sequence.  The sequence is analysed for recombination using bootscanning methods. September 2005

We will be presenting in the Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics (SSABMI) Training Program at UWC from 19 to 22 of September 2005. September 2005

The HIV Drug Resistance database in Stanford University is one of the official mirror of the Rega HIV-1 subtyping tool. September 2005

BioAfrica report  2005. September 2005

HIVBase Training Sponsored by the Brazilian AIDS program. LASP, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. 13 to 16 September 2005.

The BioAfrica website is on the news. We recently published a review paper on the Retrovirology journal, entitled: BioAfrica's HIV-1 Proteomics Resource: Combining protein data with bioinformatics tools. August 2005

The Advanced HIV Sequence Analysis Workshop. West African Biotechnology Workshops Series, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Dates: April 2 - 8, 2005. Sponsered by WABWS-Genome Sciences Program, UNICEF/UNDP/WHO & College of Medicine, University of Ibadan