Etienne de Villiers

Group leader

Bioinformatics

I am the Bioinformatics group leader at the Wellcome – KEMRI – Oxford collaborative research programme in Kilifi, Kenya where I established a Bioinformatics and Genomics platform to support the application of bioinformatics and genomics in research projects at the programme.

Key publications

Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences of Kenyan African swine fever virus isolates within p72 genotypes IX and X
Journal article

Bishop RP. et al, (2015), Virus Genes, 50, 303 - 309
TparvaDB: a database to support Theileria parva vaccine development
Journal article

Visendi P. et al, (2011), Database, 2011, bar015 - bar015
Phylogenomic analysis of 11 complete African swine fever virus genome sequences
Journal article

de Villiers EP. et al, (2010), Virology, 400, 128 - 136
Comparative genomics of the Rab protein family in Apicomplexan parasites
Journal article

Langsley G. et al, (2008), Microbes and Infection, 10, 462 - 470
Theileria parva candidate vaccine antigens recognized by immune bovine cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Journal article

Graham SP. et al, (2006), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 3286 - 3291

Recent publications

Sequence analysis of cell-free DNA derived from cultured human bone osteosarcoma (143B) cells
Journal article

Bronkhorst AJ. et al, (2018), Tumor Biology, 40, 101042831880119 - 101042831880119
The eBioKit, a stand-alone educational platform for bioinformatics
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Hernández-de-Diego R. et al, (2017), PLOS Computational Biology, 13, e1005616 - e1005616
Micro-epidemiological structuring of Plasmodium falciparum parasite populations in regions with varying transmission intensities in Africa.
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Omedo I. et al, (2017), Wellcome Open Research, 2, 10 - 10
Geographic-genetic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum parasite populations from surveys of primary school children in Western Kenya
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Omedo I. et al, (2017), Wellcome Open Research, 2, 29 - 29
Geographic-genetic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum parasite populations from surveys of primary school children in Western Kenya.
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Omedo I. et al, (2017), Wellcome Open Research, 2

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