Ten simple rules for developing bioinformatics capacity at an academic institution

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.

Editorial

Shaun Aron et al. PLoS Comput Biol. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 9;17(12):e1009592.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009592. eCollection 2021 Dec.

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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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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