Ten simple rules for developing bioinformatics capacity at an academic institution

Shaun Aron; C Victor Jongeneel; Paballo Abel Chauke; Melek Chaouch; Judit Kumuthini; Lyndon Zass; Fouzia Radouani; Samar Kamal Kassim; Faisal M Fadlelmola; Nicola Mulder

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009592

Ten simple rules for developing bioinformatics capacity at an academic institution

PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Dec 9;17(12):e1009592. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009592. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Independent consultant, Rolle, Switzerland.
³ Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Laboratory of bioinformatics, biomathematics and biostatistics, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Belvédère, Tunisia.
⁵ South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ Chlamydiae & Mycoplasmas Laboratory Research Department, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco.
⁷ Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, and MASRI Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁸ Centre for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.

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Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Africa
Computational Biology / education*
Computational Biology / methods
Computational Biology / organization & administration*
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Diffusion of Innovation
Genomics
Humans
International Cooperation
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Schools
Software
United States
Universities*

Grants and funding

SA, CVJ, PAC, MC, JK, LZ, FR, SKK, FMF and NM are funded in full or in part by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund H3ABioNet grant, U24HG006941. NM is also funded for bioinformatics training activities by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-018977). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.