Education Profile
- Ph.D. Bioinformatics, South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape, 2009
- M.Sc. (Masters) Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, 2007
- B.Sc. (Hons) Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, 2004
- B.Com. (Hons) Management, University of the Western Cape, 2003
Research Interests
Development of screening methods that facilitate the discovery of compounds with industrial application and drug repurposing
Professional Profile
- 2011-present Research Scientist, Computational Bioscience Research Center, KAUST
- 2009-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Bioscience Research Center, KAUST
Selected Publications
Ba-alawi Wail, Soufan, O., Essack, M., Kalnis, P., & Bajic, V. B. (2016). DASPfind: new efficient method to predict drug–target interactions. Journal of Cheminformatics, 8(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-016-0128-4
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Fatani, S., Saito, Y., Alarawi, M., Gojobori, T., & Mineta, K. (2021). Genome sequencing and identification of cellulase genes in Bacillus paralicheniformis strains from the Red Sea. BMC Microbiology, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-021-02316-w
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Khamis, A. M., Essack, M., Gao, X., & Bajic, V. B. (2014). Distinct profiling of antimicrobial peptide families. Bioinformatics, 31(6), 849–856. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu738
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Soufan, O., Ba-alawi Wail, Afeef, M., Essack, M., Rodionov, V., Kalnis, P., & Bajic, V. B. (2015). Mining Chemical Activity Status from High-Throughput Screening Assays. PLOS ONE, 10(12), e0144426. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144426
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Alzubaidy, H., Essack, M., Malas, T. B., Bokhari, A., Motwalli, O., Kamanu, F. K., … Archer, J. A. C. (2016). Rhizosphere microbiome metagenomics of gray mangroves (Avicennia marina) in the Red Sea. Gene, 576(2), 626–636. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2015.10.032
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Abdallah, R. Z., Adel, M., Ouf, A., Sayed, A., Ghazy, M. A., Alam, I., … Siam, R. (2014). Aerobic methanotrophic communities at the Red Sea brine-seawater interface. Frontiers in Microbiology, 5. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00487