Adaptive Structured Noise Injection for shallow and deep neural networks 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Machine learning and bioinformatics In all areas of biological and medical research, the role of the computer has been dramatically enhanced in the last to decades. One particular area that can best reflect...

Computational methods to unravel tumor evolution from genomic data 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Overview of sequencing techniques A large number of sequencing technologies have been developed over the last two decades, and have been extensively reviewed [Goodwin et al., 2016; Heather and Chain, 2016; van Dijk...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN TERRITORIES TYPES USING VIRUS NEUTRALISATION DATA 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER THREE PYROSEQUENCING ANALYSES REVEALS COMPARABLE POPULATION DIVERSITY OF CHIMERA AND HOST-ADAPTED FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUSES INTRODUCTION Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), of which FMD virus (FMDV) is the aetiological agent, is a contagious, acute infection...

ANTIGENICITY OF AN INTRA-SEROTYPE CHIMERIC FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VACCINE

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER TWO DETERMINATION OF COMMON GENETIC VARIANTS WITHIN THE NON STRUCTURAL PROTEINS OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUSES ISOLATED IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA Acknowledgements This work has been submitted for publication in the Journal Veterinary...

IDENTIFICATION OF MYCOPLASMASPECIES FROM SOUTH AFRICAN POULTRY FARMS AND ASSESSMENT OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER 3: GENOME ASSEMBLY AND ANNOTATION OF MYCOPLASMAPULLORUM, ISOLATED FROM DOMESTIC POULTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA The  content  of  this  chapter  was  published as  a Genome Announcement  by  A  Beylefeld and C Abolnik, entitled ...

ISOLATION OF A BANANA CYCLIN D2;1 GENE HOMOLOG 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Genetic engineering of banana Genetic transformation has been used to introgress important agronomic traits in a number of monocotyledonous crops (Cheng et al., 2004). In banana, this strategy has a potential for traits...

Bacterial strain and characterization of the bacterium

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » GENERAL INTRODUCTION Reporter genes are commonly used in the construction of transcriptional fusions to regulatory elements of interest, and have facilitated greatly the analysis of gene expression and the study of individual promoters...

Terminalia spp in Africa with special reference to its health status

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Chapter 2 Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Terminalia catappa in Cameroon, South Africa and Madagascar ABSTRACT Species in the Botryosphaeriaceae represent some of the most important fungal pathogens of woody plants. Although these fungi have...

INVESTIGATING RECOMBINATION IN AHSV GENOMES

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Total dsRNA extraction Total dsRNA extraction was carried-out as described by Potgieter et al., 2009. Briefly; infected cells of 4+ CPE were scraped from the flask and centrifuged at 3000xg for 5 minutes....

Draft genome sequences of two extensively drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Background Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) is a serious problem worldwide, with about 10.4 and 14 million incident and prevalent cases respectively  (Karim et al., 2009; WHO, 2009; WHO, 2016a)....