Dr George Githinji
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George Githinji
Postdoctoral research scientist
I hold a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science and technology and a PhD from the Open University (UK) in collaboration with KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. During my PhD programme, I investigated the extent of sequence and epitope diversity from a short region of the PfEMP1 molecule that is associated with characteristic expression patterns in severe and non-severe malaria cases. Thereafter I joined the Virus Epidemiology and Control Group lead by Prof James Nokes as an early career postdoctoral fellow with funding support from IDeAL. At VEC group, I utilise computational approaches to study RSV virus diversity and transmission patterns during outbreaks. I am interested in virus epidemiology, transmission and evolution and in developing computational methods for processing large-scale genomic data and exploring biological sequence diversity.
Recent publications
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Evaluating the performance of tools used to call minority variants from whole genome short-read data
Said Mohammed K. et al, (2018), Wellcome Open Research, 3, 21 - 21
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Assessing the utility of minority variant composition in elucidating RSV transmission pathways
Githinji G. et al, (2018)
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Evaluating the performance of tools used to call minority variants from whole genome short-read data
Said Mohammed K. et al, (2018), Wellcome Open Research, 3, 21 - 21
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Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review
Smith AM. et al, (2018), PeerJ Computer Science, 4, e147 - e147
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Evaluating the performance of tools used to call minority variants from whole genome short-read data.
Said Mohammed K. et al, (2018), Wellcome open research, 3