Challenges and Considerations for Delivering Bioinformatics Training in LMICs: Perspectives From Pan-African and Latin American Bioinformatics Networks

• Verena Ras,
• Patricia Carvajal-López,
• Piraveen Gopalasingam,
• Alice Matimba,
• Paballo Abel Chauke,
• Nicola Mulder,
• Fatma Guerfali,
• Victoria Dominguez Del Angel,
• Alejandro Reyes,
• Guilherme Oliveira,
• Javier De Las Rivas,
• Marco Cristancho

Affiliations

Verena Ras

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

Patricia Carvajal-López

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Piraveen Gopalasingam

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Alice Matimba

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Paballo Abel Chauke

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

Nicola Mulder

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

Fatma Guerfali

Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Victoria Dominguez Del Angel

INRAe, Centre de Recherche de Versailles, Institut Français de Bioinformatique, UMS3601-CNRS, Paris, France

Alejandro Reyes

Max Planck Tandem Group in Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Guilherme Oliveira

Instituto Tecnologico Vale, Belem, Brazil

Javier De Las Rivas

Cancer Research Center (CiC-IBMCC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), Campus Miguel de Unamuno s/n, Salamanca, Spain

Marco Cristancho

Vicerrectoria de Investigación y Creación, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia