As Africa embraces genomics in the post-Covid era, quality assurance is critical
By Alan Christoffels, Sarah Mwangi and Emma Griffiths
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UWC Research: Unveiling Novel Genomic Biomarkers for Paediatric and Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Cancer remains a global menace, claiming countless lives. In 2020 alone, the world recorded 19.3 million new cancer cases and nearly 10 million cancer-related deaths. This grim reality set the stage for Nasr O M Eshibona’s doctoral research conducted at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
Africa CDC looks forward to major genomics symposium
The ‘Beyond COVID-19: Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics for Health Security in Africa’ symposium held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia afforded hosts, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) the opportunity to reflect on progress made in rolling out capacity in pathogen genomics in Africa. Taking place in the Nelson Mandela Conference Hall of
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SANBI hosts Public Health training in Bioinformatics
More than a dozen public health laboratory staff from around Africa attended a training session on pathogen genomics and data management at the University of the Western Cape. ‘Pandemic preparedness’ has become a mantra as countries and global public health organisations take stock of the weaknesses that Covid-19 exposed in public health systems. One area
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Baobab LIMS for African Laboratories supporting SARS-COV-2 surveillance.
Baobab LIMS is an open-source laboratory information management system. This software solution focusses on quality management of the life cycle of biological specimens and their associated metadata. The evolution of Baobab LIMS has included the development and implementation of aviral module, separated from the classical biospecimen module in the LIMS. This viral module has incorporated
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A Bioinformatics research group is created within SANBI
Overview The Bioinformatics Oncology research group within SANBI was created in October 2019 with the mission of providing information and knowledge on tumor heterogeneity. Cancer heterogeneity has a direct impact on therapy failure and relapses, as well as patient outcomes. The discovery of multi-omic markers behind it paves the way for the application of artificial
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University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the University of Stellenbosch make publish new discoveries in HIV-1 Drug resistance and gene isolation for Parkinsons Disease.
Dr. Ruben Cloete and his research group, together with researchers at the University of Stellenbosch, have recently published two papers. The first paper details their analysis work on drug resistance in HIV-1 integrase, and the second on identifying plausible candidate genes for Parkinson’s disease. A brief summary follows below. Drug resistance analysis in HIV-1 Integrase: