The Initiative:
The PharmacoMicrobiomics project started as a research-based educational initiative to explore drug-microbe and drug-microbiome interactions. The initiative aimed at introducing bioinformatics and microbial genomics to pharmacy students while benefiting the research community. The current web portal is the first product of this project, and is continuously being updated.
Figure published in BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12(Suppl 7):A10
The Team:
The project is currently run and maintained by volunteer members of EgyBio (mostly FOPCU alumni, current and former students of Dr. Ramy Aziz). The work is split into literature mining/biocuration and web/database development.
Website and database developer
- Mariam Reyad Rizkallah, 2010 graduate of Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (Currently a data engineering doctoral candidate at Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany) and co-editor of MicroWriters.
Mariam designed and built the database and built a major part of the website as a part of her graduation project from the Open Source Technologies Department, Information Technology Institute (ITI), Smart Village, Egypt.
Biocurators
Current
- Mariam Reyad Rizkallah (since 2010)
- Shaimaa Hegazy (since 2018), 2018 graduate of Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University (FOPCU), Cairo, Egypt, currently MSc student at FOPCU and the Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357
Former
- Rama Saad (2011-2015), 2009 graduate of Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (Currently MSc student at The American University in Cairo, 11835, Cairo, Egypt)
- Radwa Raed Sharaf (2011-2013), teaching assistant and graduate student, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt and co-editor of MicroWriters
- Samar Kabeel (2011-2012), 2009 graduate of Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
- Soha Gamal (2013-2015), graduate student, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
- Reem El-Husseiny (2015-2016), a graduate of Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Principal investigator
- Ramy K. Aziz, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University (Currently Head of the Microbiology adn Immunology Research Program, the Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357, Cairo, Egypt)
Acknowledgments:
We thank Eng. Ahmed Abdel-Aliem, Lead Technical Architect at Global Consulting Services and Software Development (GCSSD) for valuable comments and suggestions concerning Django deployment, and we thank Chem. Ahmad Abdel-Khalek, System Analyst at Information Technology Incorporation (ITInc) for advising in database design and implementation.
We thank Nematjon Narziev, M.Sc. for dedicating amble time and effort to support Release 1.5 migration.
The Database
This drug-microbiome database was designed and built as the graduation project of the Open Source Technologies track at the Information Technology Institute (ITI) in June, 2011.
Django, the Python-based framework, was used to build the web portal, and JQuery libraries. JLinkPreview plugin is provided by Sarpdoruk Tahmaz. This template is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License by Arcsin Web Templates. The project is hosted by WebFaction.