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Whole-Genome Sequence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) obtained from a South African Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patient

A complete genome sequence was obtained for a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolated from a South African patient with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), who had returned to South Africa after travelling to Italy. SANBI Contributing authors: Dr Ruben Cloete and Peter van Heusden on behalf of the SA-COVID-19 response team and in

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Baobab LIMS demo hosted at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

There are two Baobab LIMS demo virtual machines hosted at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. In order to mitigate risk associated with a possible server error, a third mirror Baobab LIMS virtual machine was created by our esteemed collaborators at the Swedish University of Agricultural

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The Evolution And Molecular Epidemiology Of Single-Stranded DNA and RNA Viral Pathogens Of Humans Other Animals And Plants.

My research interests primarily focuses on the evolution and molecular epidemiology of single-stranded DNA and RNA viral pathogens of humans other animals and plants. I seek to computationally determine using full genomic sequences the evolutionary underpinnings of the emergence and spread of the numerous viral diseases that seriously threaten the health and food security of

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UWC Forensic DNA Lab Product Launch

On 6 December 2018 Prof Junaid Gamieldien attended the product launch of the UniQ Typer™ Y10 Genotyping Kit Product developed by Prof Eugenia D’amato at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa in partnership with Inqaba Biotec. Gamieldien was as present as the team-lead for development of UniQTyper Reference Database (http://ystr.sanbi.ac.za/), which was co-developed

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SANBI RESEARCHERS EXPLORE HOW HIV MAY BECOME “IMMUNE” TO VACCINES.

Roux-Cil Ferreira, a PhD student in the group of Prof Simon Travers, has recently published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33390-2).  In this paper she explored how sugar molecules bound to the surface proteins of HIV are in a constant state of flux in order to protect the virion from attack by the host

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Galaxy Africa 2018

Galaxy (https://galaxyproject.org/) is a widely used web-based bioinformatics analysis environment that SANBI has been contributing to since 2012. The Galaxy Africa conference (attended by 44 participants from 7 countries) (http://galaxyafrica.sanbi.ac.za/), was held at SANBI at the University of the Western Cape between 3 and 5 April 2018. It aimed to inform, educate, and bring together

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