Community Profile – Dr. Josefina Campos
We shine a spotlight on Dr. Josefina Campos, the Director of the National Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics -ANLIS ‘Dr Carlos G Malbrán’
Update: Promoting Sustainable Development In Bioinformatics To Support Public Health
Ten research teams will be partnering with national public health laboratories to implement standardized bioinformatics practices, pipelines, and data structures in either AMR or SARS-CoV-2 sequencing.
Ethics and Data Sharing Working Group – August 2021 update
The PHA4GE Ethics and Data Sharing Platform continues to grow as more people are joining and participating in the community.
OPINION: Organizational resilience in the context of public health threats
Organizational resilience is championed across various sectors such as urban planning, ecology, extractive industries, and healthcare for a system’s ability to continue to meet its objectives in the face of challenges.
Bioinformatics Solutions for SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Analysis
Genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 has made a profound impact in support of the global response to the pandemic. The ability to carry out analysis on samples is increasingly being considered as a crucial functionality of public health labs. However, many labs are faced with the daunting task of starting an entire bioinformatics program and integrating […]
The PHA4GE Ethics and Data Sharing Platform has launched!
The Ethics and Data-Sharing Working Group is delighted to announce that the PHA4GE Ethics and Data Sharing Platform went live at the PHA4GE Open Meeting on 30 March 2021
PHA4GE Pipelines and Visualization Working Group – May 2021 Update
It’s been a while since our last update but during that time the Pipelines and Visualization Working has made substantial progress.
Data Structures: Major updates hot off the presses!
May 2021 update from the Data Structures Working Group
Community Profile – Peter van Heusden
We chat to Peter van Heusden on his role at SANBI, COVID-19, challenges facing the Bioinformatics research community and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
OPINION: Attract or repel? The case of COVID19 vaccines
Vaccine development is a lengthy process that could take 10-15 years. Efforts to develop the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine have turned out to be faster. On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID19 a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) giving scientists and academics the green light to start developing COVID19 vaccines.