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Report evaluates computational genomics skills of African scientists

June 27, 2017

A new paper co-authored by Illinois and African scientists describes how an African bioinformatics network tested researchers’ ability to perform computational genomics tasks that will aid in studying disease.

Since 2010, the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative has taken a genomics-centered approach to studying disease susceptibility in Africa.


June 27, 2017


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Four researchers at the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) have been granted access to the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, capable of sustained performance at 1 petaflop, the measure of computer processing speed that is equal to a thousand trillion floating-point operations per second.


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