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The HIV Data Management and Data Mining Workshop.

Venue at:
South African Medical Research Council (MRC).
491 Ridge Road, Durban, South Africa.

Organized by:

Molecular Virology and Bioinformatics Unit at Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies,
DDMRI, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa.
13 to 16 of  December 2004.

Introduction        -         Program            -        Material and Presentation      -        Selected Participants        -    Evaluation Results

PROGRAM:

MONDAY - December 13

9:00 am - Welcome address and practical instructions

Overview of Laboratory data management in a Molecular Virology lab. and the South African AIDS treatment programme.
Sharon Cassol.

The development of relational database to capture clinical, epidemiological and molecular data.
Chris Seegbreets

The Brazilian AIDS program data management and sequence analysis
Luis Carlos Alcantara

Lunch

Ontologies uses in HIV.
Winston Hide

Designing and searching local sequence databases. Theoretical and practical
Tulio de Oliveira

Mining resistance information from the Stanford Drug Resistance database. Theoretical and practical
Michelle Gordon



TUESDAY - December 14

Interpretation of HIV-1 Drug Resistance .Theoretical and practical
Kristel Van Laethem.

Basic concepts of datamining.
Hendrik Blockeel


Lunch

Classification analysis for therapy response. Theory and Practice using WEKA.
Anneleen Van Assche, Celine Vens


WEDNESDAY -December 15

Classification analysis for therapy response. Practice continued.
Anneleen Van Assche, Celine Vens


Lunch

Detecting associations between mutations. Theory and practice using WEKA
Jan Ramon

THURSDAY - December 16

Clinical and molecular epidemiologic data analysis.
Tulio de Oliveira

Data preprocessing. Theory and practical
Koen Deforche

Lunch

Bayesian networks. Theory and practical
Koen Deforche

  


For more information and applications to:
Dr. Tulio de Oliveira
Molecular Virology and Bioinformatics Unit.
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies
DDMRI, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine.
UKZN, Durban, South Africa.
Email: toliveira@mrc.ac.za
Tel:  +27 (0) 31 260 40 14
Fax: +27 (0) 31 260 40 15

Michelle Gordon
Molecular Virology and Bioinformatics Unit.
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies
DDMRI, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine.
UKZN, Durban, South Africa.
Email: tarinm@ukzn.ac.za
Tel:  +27 (0) 31 260 40 14
Fax: +27 (0) 31 260 40 15

Funded by the: Flanders Bi-Lateral Cooperation, the National Bioinformatics Network and the Wellcome Trust.

Structure and computer support provided by the South African Medical Research Council (MRC).


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