Ten simple rules for developing bioinformatics capacity at an academic institution

• Shaun Aron ,

  * E-mail: shaun.aron@wits.ac.za

  Affiliation Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6200-0485

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• C. Victor Jongeneel,

  Affiliation Independent consultant, Rolle, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3922-1906

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• Paballo Abel Chauke,

  Affiliation 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9257-616X

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• Melek Chaouch,

  Affiliation Laboratory of bioinformatics, biomathematics and biostatistics, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Belvédère, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5868-4204

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• Judit Kumuthini,

  Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8008-1917

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• Lyndon Zass,

  Affiliation 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8862-1706

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• Fouzia Radouani,

  Affiliation Chlamydiae & Mycoplasmas Laboratory Research Department, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6221-2661

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• Samar Kamal Kassim,

  Affiliation Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, and MASRI Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4359-6620

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• Faisal M. Fadlelmola,

  Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

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• Nicola Mulder

  Affiliation 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0941

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