Bioinformatics in Africa: The Rise of Ghana?
Fig 1
Bioinformatics-related publications authored by scientists affiliated with Ghanaian institutions.
As a measure of bioinformatics research output in Ghana, the search terms “next-generation sequencing Ghana,” “computational biology Ghana,” “bioinformatics Ghana,” “genomic Ghana,” and “in silico Ghana” were used to obtain peer-reviewed research articles published between 2004 and 2014 and indexed in the PubMed, Web of Science, and SCOPUS databases (refer to the main text for article inclusion criteria).