H3Africa: A tipping point for a revolution in bioinformatics, genomics and health research in Africa

Source Code for Biology and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Adoga, Moses P ^a,b   Fatumo, Segun A ^c,f,g   Agwale, Simon M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d T Mobile USA Inc   (United States)

^e Innovative Biotech ^*  (Nigeria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL BIOTECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Africa; Bioinformatics; Genetics; Genomics; H3Africa; Health; Heredity; NIH; Wellcome Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900444741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0473-9-10     Document Type: Note

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