BoF Sessions – High-Performance Computing for Genomic Sequencing
Infrastructure Working Group members host BoF sessions with researchers and scientists all around the world to address pertinent issues.
Ethics and Data Sharing Manuscript
During the first half of 2022 the PHA4GE Ethics and Data Sharing Working Group opened a call for sub-grant applications for projects that focused on research ethics and data sharing in health research.
Antibiotic resistance: A global health problem
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) falls in the top 10 category of public health threats. According to the most recent estimates, 4.95 million deaths were associated with bacterial AMR in 2019 and was therefore the third largest cause of mortality globally.
Team Malaysia’s endeavours on implementation of standardized bioinformatics practices, pipelines, and data structures in SARS-CoV-2 sequencing
PHA4GE chats to Dr Ritchie Mae Gamot on how the team undertook their SARS-CoV-2 project.
Bioinformatics Pipelines and Visualization Working Group – July 2022 Update
We have maintained our regular bi-monthly meetings; continuing discussions around key technical solutions and resources for SARS-CoV-2 Bioinformatics in the public health space. The last quarter saw over 40 individual members attend the meetings
Ethics and Data Sharing Manuscript
The Ethics and Data Sharing Working Group currently have four funded projects ongoing with support from subgrants awarded in the first round of funding.
Sorting things out: Tales from the Data Structures Working Group
In the second quarter of 2022, the DSWG also participated in a number of workshops and knowledge sharing sessions with organizations around the world working on developing bioinformatics resources and best practices.
Africa CDC Bioinformatics Training Support for COVID-19 Surveillance
On 23 May 2022, the Africa CDC, in partnership with the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) and SANBI, launched the first in a series of hands-on bioinformatics training held at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa.
Q&A with Nicki Tiffin on the promotion of ethical benefit sharing in health research
We chat with Nicki Tiffin on the recent publication of an ethical benefit sharing framework in BMJ Global Health.
PHA4GE AMR Sub-Award Success Story: Team Cambodia
PHA4GE chats to Dr Koen Vandelannoote from Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Cambodia on their AMR Sub-Award.