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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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
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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Dr Ruben Cloete, a lecturer at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape (UWC) has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright fellowship to attend the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in August 2022 till end of December 2022. Being a young academic he has competed with several Professors for the
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Professor Alan Christoffels, Director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) and research chair of Bioinformatics and Health Genomics at the University of the Western Cape, has been appointed as a senior advisor for pathogen genomics and partnerships at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), based at the African Union. Africa CDC
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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
Baobab LIMS for African Laboratories supporting SARS-COV-2 surveillance. Read More »
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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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:
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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By Alan Christoffels As citizens we applaud the speed with which the South African Government has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our national response teams are ramping up the much needed national control measures in response to COVID-19… Read more