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Loretta Florance interviewed several of AMSI BioInfoSummer 2014 Speakers about the important role mathematicians and statisticians play in the current battle against Ebola. Loretta Florance, ABC [...]

MELBOURNE, 28 November 2014. The most effective and, perhaps, surprising weapons in our current battle against the spread of diseases like Ebola, HIV and cancer may prove to be mathematics and [...]

By Jonathan Keith, Monash University The number of reported Ebola cases is doubling roughly every five weeks in Sierra Leone, and in as little as two to three weeks in Liberia. The number of [...]

Bioinformatics plays a key role in infectious disease control – in modelling and early warning, calculating incubation period and monitoring variations in virus sequences to name a few. As the [...]