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Professor Simon Travers is one of SANBI’s Principal Investigators with a focus on HIV research. His talk on how we can find more effective ways to treat HIV as well as how to prevent infection promises to be engaging. Do not miss this opportunity. Where: Truth Coffee Roasting, 36 Buitenkant St When: 26 March 6 pm

Professor Alan Christoffels was awarded the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)-Africa prize on 17th March 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the International Human Genome Meeting. An international committee unanimously decided that Alan was to receive this prize in recognition for the scientific leadership and vision he has provided on the African continent. His research projects

The South African National Bioinformatics Institute is partnering Bika Lab Systems in customising an Open Source Bika LIMS branch for genomic lab disciplines and biobanking, including the management of sample and data distribution. The current Bika branch for health care laboratories, Bika Health 3.1, which already fulfills clinical subject requirements, is the starting point for

A team led by Professor Alan Christoffels recently received a MRC flagship award to undertake research on tuberculosis with a focus on developing methods to accelerate the identification of new tuberculosis drug targets. Over the past 4 years, the team has been predicting new drug targets for tuberculosis and predicting the effect of DNA modifications

An international team of researchers from institutions such as Broad Institute at MIT/Harvard, the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Rhodes University (RU) has decoded the genome of a creature whose evolutionary history is both enigmatic and illuminating: the African coelacanth. A sea-cave dwelling, five-foot long

Two of SANBI’s students received top honours at the recent 2012 UWC Science Faculty Post-Graduate Research Open Day (ROD2012). PhD student Imogen Wright from the HIV Evolution group at SANBI received the first prize for her oral presentation on the use of graphical processing units (GPUs) for the generation of biologically relevant multiple sequence alignments.

Researchers at the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) have come up with a way of stopping the endless cycle of individual computer hardware purchases, while still ensuring that researchers and students alike have the necessary computational resources to run their operations. Their cloud computing-based solution is summarised in