Developing expertise in bioinformatics for biomedical research in Africa

Applied and Translational Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-34

  Karikari, Thomas K ^a,b   Quansah, Emmanuel ^c,d   Mohamed, Wael M Y ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

^e MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Africa; Bioinformatics; Biomedical research; Computational biology; Genomics; Research capacity

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; DATA BASE; ELECTRICITY; FUNDING; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; TRAINING;

EID: 84946561049     PISSN: 22120661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atg.2015.10.002     Document Type: Article

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