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A pan-African pathogen genomics data sharing platform to support disease outbreaks

In a recent post in The Conversation, SANBI Director Professor Alan Christoffels and Africa CDC Pathogen Genomics Programme Lead Dr Sofonias Tessema explain the need for a repository for pathogen data sharing between African countries: Infectious disease outbreaks in African countries are, unfortunately, all too common. Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda; Marburg […]

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Visiting Speaker Seminar at SANBI: 9 May 2023 10am – Wastewater Sequencing for Genomic Surveillance

SANBI will be hosting Dr Joshua Levy from Scripps Research in California, USA for a seminar on Wastewater Sequencing for Genomic Surveillance. The seminar will take place at 10-11am in the SANBI seminar rooms, 5th floor Life Science Building, University of the Western Cape. Coffee and biscuits will be served afterwards. Dr Levy (from Prof

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PhD position available to study HIV LTRs and latent reservoir dynamics at SANBI

Applications from suitably qualified individuals are invited for a Doctorate (PhD) degree position at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. Bioinformatics is a specialist discipline straddling the fields of biology, mathematics and computer science and is integral to modern biological research. The South African National

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Postdoctoral position available in the African Data and Biospecimen Exchange project, at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape.

The African Data and Biospecimen Exchange is a new project starting at SANBI under the leadership of Prof NickiTiffin and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aiming to reduce barriers to sharing of African data andbiospecimens and to promote equitable data and biospecimen sharing of African resources.This project will build an online exchange

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Prof Nicki Tiffin joins SANBI

Professor Nicki Tiffin joined SANBI in November 2021, bringing her expertise in working with health data and the bioinformatics of human disease. She has a Ph D in molecular genomics (University of London, 2000) and a Masters in Public Health-Epidemiology (University of Cape Town, 2017). Her work includes the integration and analysis of routine health

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SANBI provides leadership at Galaxy Community Conference

The South African National Bioinformatics Institute’s Peter van Heusden served as the Scientific Programme Chair for the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2021). Galaxy is “open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research” that researchers & software engineers at the Institute have been contributing to since 2010.

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Masters In Science (M. Sc.) Positions Available At SANBI

Applications from suitably qualified individuals are invited for two Masters in Science (MSc) degree positions at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. Bioinformatics is a specialist discipline straddling the fields of biology, mathematics and computer science and is integral to modern biological research. The South

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SANBI hosts colloquium on databases

On the 20th of August 2015, SANBI hosted a colloquium entitled Store, Query and Analyze @ SANBI (programme here) where six SANBI researchers presented on storing, analysing and presenting data using databases. After an introduction by Peter van Heusden, Hocine Bendou presented on using Django to build a web application to integrate sample data drawn from

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