Colombia's cyberinfrastructure for biodiversity: Building data infrastructure in emerging countries to foster socioeconomic growth

Vega, Jose J De; Davey, Robert P.; Duitama, Jorge; Escobar, Dairo; Cristancho-Ardila, Marco A.; Etherington, Graham; Minotto, Alice; Arenas, Nelson Enrique; Pineda-Cardenas, Juan D.; Álvarez, Javier Correa; Rodriguez, Anyela Valentina Camargo; Haerty, Wilfried; Mallarino-Robayo, Juan P.; Muñoz-Torres, Monica; Fernández-Fuentes, Narcís; Palma, Federica Di

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“…Large amounts of data about Colombia's ecosystems are being collected in the "Colombia BIO" expeditions, including novel biodiversity in previously unexplored regions due to the internal conflict. Unfortunately, for a high percentage of these species, there is sparse knowledge, which has avoided taking advantage of the benefits in the food, medicine, and industry (De Vega et al, 2020). An alternative way to take advantage of these biological resources is the practice of bioprospecting, which implies the interaction between different types of knowledge, especially ancestral knowledge that local and indigenous communities in South American countries have, with the scientific knowledge contributed by the academic and industrial sectors, especially the pharmaceutical industry (Duarte and Velho, 2008).…”

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Anti-inflammatory screening of plant species from the Colombian Caribbean Coast

Jenny¹,

Luis²,

Diaz³

2021

J Appl Pharm Sci

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Chronic inflammation has been recognized as an underlying pathophysiological mechanism in the initiation and progression of noncommunicable diseases, representing a significant morbidity and mortality cause worldwide. The prolonged use of anti-inflammatory drugs has been associated with different adverse effects, so there is a permanent need to develop new drugs to treat these pathologies. The anti-inflammatory potential of 37 extracts coming from 31 plant species from the Colombian Caribbean coast, was evaluated determining their ability to inhibit nitric oxide (NO) production using lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activated macrophages. The most active extracts were evaluated for their effect on the production of tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) and interleukins 1β and 6 (IL-1β and IL-6) in macrophages. Fifteen extracts showed potent inhibitory activity of the production of NO, being the extracts of Ambrosia cumanensis, Trichilia hirta, Hyptis capitata (leaves and seeds), Mammea americana, and Crateva tapia, the most active extracts. The extracts of A. cumanensis and M. americana were considered promising, which significantly decreased the production of all proinflammatory cytokine evaluated. The species of A. cumanensis and M. americana are a promising source of molecules with anti-inflammatory activity. They should be evaluated in in vivo models of inflammation, as well as perform their fractionation to identify the compounds responsible for the activity.

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Anti-inflammatory screening of plant species from the Colombian Caribbean Coast

Jenny¹,

Luis²,

Diaz³

2021

J Appl Pharm Sci

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“…Our summer schools have mainly two objectives: (i) bring awareness in Colombia of the broad array of research and career opportunities in areas supported by HPC, and (ii) promote cooperation between academia, industry, and international entities. In a nutshell, our program seeks to generate HPC expertise needed in Colombia [14] while broadening the community.…”

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Expanding Horizons: Advancing HPC Education in Colombia through CyberColombia's Summer Schools

Vivas,

Alvarez,

Diaz

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JOCSE

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High-performance computing (HPC) is an important tool for research, development, and the industry. Moreover, with the recent expansion of machine learning applications, the need for HPC is increasing even further. However, in developing countries with limited access to the HPC ecosystem, the lack of infrastructure, expertise, and access to knowledge represents a major obstacle to the expansion of HPC. Under these constraints, the adoption of HPC by communities presents several challenges. The HPC Summer Schools are an initiative of CyberColombia that has taken place over the past 5 years. It aims to develop the critical skills, strategic planning, and networking required to make available, disseminate, and maintain the knowledge of high-performance computing and its applications in Colombia. Here we report the results of this series of Summer Schools. The events have proven to be successful, with over 200 participants from more than 20 institutions. Participants span different levels of expertise, including undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals. We also describe successful use cases for HPC cloud solutions, namely Chameleon Cloud.

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“…Several sectors important for Colombia's economy are data-intensive, including: Drug development [1], weather prediction [2], oil and gas exploration [3], astrophysics [4], biodiversity genomics [5], development of new materials [6,7] and AI [8].…”

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“…A primordial event was the C3Biodiversidad workshop organised in Bogota in June 2018. In this workshop, experts from sixteen Colombian institutions, and a panel of international infrastructure maintainers and tool developers from the UK and USA, carried out an analysis of the needs to promote a cyberinfrastructure for the analysis of Colombia's biodiversity data [5].…”

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CyberColombia: a Regional Initiative to Teach HPC and Computational Sciences

Barragán

2021

Av. Cienc. Ing. (Quito)

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The series Summer School HPC Colombia is an initiative to extend high-performance computing-related knowledge in Colombia, and more widely in Latin America, and integrate expertise and research from academia and industry in the same event. This year’s edition, which is the third in the series, was carried out entirely online due to the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic during the first half of the year 2020. In this paper, we summarise the aims, development, deployment, and results of the Summer School HPC Colombia2020event. It is an example of the potential that the use of virtual tools and environments has to grow education for HPC

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Colombia's cyberinfrastructure for biodiversity: Building data infrastructure in emerging countries to foster socioeconomic growth

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Anti-inflammatory screening of plant species from the Colombian Caribbean Coast

Anti-inflammatory screening of plant species from the Colombian Caribbean Coast

Expanding Horizons: Advancing HPC Education in Colombia through CyberColombia's Summer Schools

CyberColombia: a Regional Initiative to Teach HPC and Computational Sciences

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