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).
Table 1.
Major research areas in which bioinformatics has been applied in Ghana.
Fig 2.
Opportunities for developing bioinformatics in Ghana.