Oral presentations

Vascular transport in plants: an advection-diffusion-reaction model of sucrose accumulation in sugarcane Lafras Uys, Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr and Johann M. Rohwer SANBI
DAD: A database of antimicrobial peptides Musa Gabere, Vijayaraghava Sundararajan, Pretorius Ashley, Saleem Adam, Alan Christoffels and Vladmir Bajic SANBI
DAS Writeback Server Design Gustavo Salazar, Nicola Mulder and Edwin Blake UCT
A web interface for a statistical model that analyzes evolution of protein-coding sequences Bonginkosi Mntungwa, Cathal Seoighe and Gaston Mazandu UCT
SeqWord Genomic Island Sniffer: A tool to identify and study distributions of Horizontally transferred genetic elements among bacteria Oliver Bezuidt, Gipsi Lima-Mendez and Oleg Reva UP
Fortuna: Determining immunological relationships between proteins by integration of multiple computational immunology tools Werner Smidt UP
De novo assembly and annotation of the transcriptome of a fast-growing Eucalyptus hybrid tree Charles Hefer, Eshchar Mizrachi, Martin Ranik, Fourie Joubert and Alexander Myburg UP
Joint analysis of trait QTL and eQTL to identify plant disease resistance genes Duncan Newman, Alexander Myburg, Jeanne Korsman and Dave Berger UP
SSHscreen and SSHdb: software for microarray-based screening and sequence management of cDNA libraries. Nanette Coetzer and Dave K. Berger UP
Word Frequency based heuristics for rapid EST clustering Dane Kennedy and Scott Hazelhurst Wits
OmegaDB: A Database and Tool for Analysing Evolutionary Fingerprints Tamarisk Scholtz, Pierre Durand, Louis Du Plessis and Scott Hazelhurst Wits
In-silico detection of chokepoint enzymes in four Plasmodium species Segun Fatumo, Clarence Yah and Ezekiel Adebiyi Covenant University
Discovery: A resource for the selection of drug targets and lead compounds in malaria Fourie Joubert, Claudia Harrison, Riaan Koegelenberg, Christiaan Odendaal and Tjaart de Beer UP
Trawling the Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) database of the sexually transmitted organism Trichomonas vaginalis for open reading frame encoding alpha-mannosidase enzyme. Sarvanen Curpen Wits
Bioinformatics approaches for Cysteine proteases in disease and agricultural applications Ozlem Tastan Bishop Rhodes University
International Glossina Genome Initiative: Towards an understanding of the Glossina morsitans transcriptome Alan Christoffels SANBI
Genome linguistics approaches for data mining in metagenomic sequences Oleg Reva UP

Posters

The malarial drug target Plasmodium falciparum 1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate reductoisomerase (PfDXR): development of a 3-D model for identification of novel, structural and functional features and for inhibitor screening Jessica L. Goble, Matthew R. Adendorff, Tjaart A.P. de Beer, Linda L. Stephens and Gregory L. Blatch Rhodes University
An evolutionary genomics approach towards analysis of genes implicated in transmission of trypanosomes between tsetse fly and mammalian host Sarah Mwangi and Alan Christoffels SANBI
Bioinformatic prediction of microRNA targets in Anopheles gambiae: Towards an understanding of parasitic control by blood-sucking mosquito Mushal Ali, Amirtha Ganesh and Alan Christoffels SANBI
Novel normalisation method for custom antibody arrays Jean-Michel Safari Serufuri, Judit Kumuthini, Cathal Seoighe, Nicola Mulder and Jonathan Blackburn UCT
An Integrative Approach to Predicting Protein- protein Interactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Kenneth Opap, Gaston Mazandu, Vennu Vuppu and Nicola Mulder UCT
Development of a software tool to simplify the analysis of the structure of supra-molecular protein complexes by chemical cross-linking and MS/MS Shannon Mayne and Hugh Patterton University of the Free State
An Ortholog based host-pathogen interaction prediction tool Christiaan Jacobus Odendaal, Tjaart de Beer and Fourie Joubert UP
Comparison of bacterial genomes by frequencies of signature words of 8 to 14 nucleotides Phillip Labuschagne and Oleg Reva UP
Visualisation of expression data for Plasmodium falciparum in the Discovery drug target and lead compound discovery system Michal Jerzy Szolkiewicz UP
Computational identification of putative miRNA genes and targets in the newly sequenced Eucalyptus grandis genome Ida C. van Jaarsveld, Fourie Joubert and Alexander A. Myburg UP
The spatial evolution of the bacterial chemotaxis pathway Anna Elizabeth Johanna Yssel, Ozlem Tastan Bishop and Olec Reva UP
Large Scale Sequence and Structural Analysis of Papain-like Cysteine Proteases Matthys Kroon, Ozlem Tastan Bishop and Fourie Joubert UP
An analysis pipeline for Digital Gene Expression (DGE) Profiling Janine Silberbauer, Philip Law, Fourie Joubert and Zander Myburg UP
Malarial drug targets: Cysteine protease as hemoglobinases Fortunate Mokoena, Juan Vorster and Ozlem Tastan Bishop UP
Genome annotation of the 1.2Mb region on chromosome 8p22-p23.1 harbouring the gene for keratolytic winter erythema (KWE) Shaun Aron and Michele Ramsay Wits
A statistical method for detecting copy number variation from array CGH data Trishanta Padayachee and Mark Dowdeswell Wits
Computational identification of synonymous SNPs in the human genome and their potential role in disease Lee-Ann Wood Wits
PDB-DB: A database for querying structural properties in PDB Yair Mark, Scott Hazelhurst and Ian Sanders Wits