Empowering African genomics for infectious disease control

At present, African scientists can only participate minimally in the genomics revolution that is transforming the understanding, surveillance and clinical treatment of infectious diseases. We discuss new initiatives to equip African scientists with knowledge of cutting-edge genomics tools, and build...

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Autores principales: Folarin, Onikepe A, Happi, Anise N, Happi, Christian T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4282014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25417758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-014-0515-y
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description At present, African scientists can only participate minimally in the genomics revolution that is transforming the understanding, surveillance and clinical treatment of infectious diseases. We discuss new initiatives to equip African scientists with knowledge of cutting-edge genomics tools, and build a sustainable critical mass of well-trained African infectious diseases genomics scientists.
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spelling pubmed-42820142015-01-03 Empowering African genomics for infectious disease control Folarin, Onikepe A Happi, Anise N Happi, Christian T Genome Biol Comment At present, African scientists can only participate minimally in the genomics revolution that is transforming the understanding, surveillance and clinical treatment of infectious diseases. We discuss new initiatives to equip African scientists with knowledge of cutting-edge genomics tools, and build a sustainable critical mass of well-trained African infectious diseases genomics scientists. BioMed Central 2014-11-07 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4282014/ /pubmed/25417758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-014-0515-y Text en © Folarin et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 The licensee has exclusive rights to distribute this article, in any medium, for 12 months following its publication. After this time, the article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4282014/
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