Fig 1.
The policy, infrastructure, training, and funding landscape of computational biology in South Africa (2000–present).
Government policy on computational biology was driven largely by the DST (above timeline arrow), while bioinformatics training courses have been a constant feature of this landscape since 2003. There was a major period of infrastructure investment from 2002–2007, from the NBN, but national funding has now become available only every two years. National bioinformatics conferences also occur in two-year intervals (details in text).
Table 1.
Bioinformatics degree programs offered at some of the South African universities.
The numbers shown are for registrations or graduations where the content is bioinformatics. The key research areas of each institution are included.
Fig 2.
Relative increase in bioinformatics and computational biology publications from South Africa compared to publications in other subject areas.
Fold change indicates relative increase in publication numbers compared to number of publications in 2001.