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Dr Dan Janies has a better way to predict the flu, The Supramap. In 2007, Janies and his colleagues at Ohio State University, the American Museum of Natural History and the Ohio Supercomputer Center developed Supramap to track the spread and evolution of pandemic (H1N1) and avian influenza (H5N1). Read More

Since first taking part in FAPESP Week in Washington, DC in 2011, Professor Daniel Janies of the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) has sought to strengthen research partnerships between universities in Brazil and the United States. Read More

Have you ever Googled for an online diagnosis before visiting a doctor? If so, you may have helped provide early warning of an infectious disease epidemic. In a new study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, Internet-based surveillance has been found to detect infectious diseases such as Dengue Fever and Influenza up to two weeks earlier […]

The amazing variety of data that are at our disposal enables us to get answers we never dreamt before, and even more important they allow us to formulate new questions.

The National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) is pleased to give students the opportunity to present their research posters at the NCDS Data Innovation Showcase Thursday, May 21, at RENCI*, the Renaissance Computing Institute in Chapel Hill, NC. The Student Poster Session will give students in data science, informatics, information science, and related fields the […]

UNC Charlotte is scheduling a series of public science and technology lectures, aimed at presenting a variety of interesting scientific topics accessible to a general audience. A screening of “Contagion.” followed by a discussion with Dan Janies and Ian Binns will follow. 7-9 p.m. March 29 at UNC Charlotte Center City Auditorium. These lectures are […]