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In silico toxicity profiling of natural product compound libraries from African flora with anti-malarial and anti-HIV properties.

Computational biology and chemistry
This paper describes an analysis of the diversity and chemical toxicity assessment of three chemical libraries of compounds from African flora (the p-ANAPL, AfroMalariaDb, and Afro-HIV), respectively containing compounds exhibiting activities against...

An expert system model for mapping tropical wetlands and peatlands reveals South America as the largest contributor.

Global change biology
Wetlands are important providers of ecosystem services and key regulators of climate change. They positively contribute to global warming through their greenhouse gas emissions, and negatively through the accumulation of organic material in histosols...

Conception of an Intelligent Chatbot for Creation of an African Virtual Patient.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Medical and paramedical training is still a major issue in Africa, given the growing needs that contrast with the shortage of teachers, hospitals and educational facilities. The aim of the present work is to design an artificial intelligence that ena...

[Artificial intelligence to support telemedicine in Africa].

Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete
Telemedicine has been used in the daily routine of dermatologists for decades. The potential advantages are especially obvious in African countries having limited medical care, long geographical distances, and a meanwhile relatively well-developed te...

Developing a Prototype Knowledge-Based System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes Using Data Mining Techniques.

Ethiopian journal of health sciences
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is a disease that affects the body's ability to produce or use insulin. A total of 425 million people are suffering from diabetes in the world. Of this, more than 16 million people live in the Africa Region, which is estimated to...

IDOMEN: An Extension of Infectious Disease Ontology for MENingitis.

Studies in health technology and informatics
In sub-Saharan African countries the prevention and control of epidemic diseases requires the improvement of the surveillance system for these diseases. Biomedical ontologies are a growing field that can improve health information systems. Indeed bio...