H3ABioNet genomic medicine and microbiome data portals hackathon proceedings.

ABSTRACT: African genomic medicine and microbiome datasets are usually not well characterized in terms of their origin, making it difficult to find and extract data for specific African ethnic groups or even countries. The Pan-African H3Africa Bioinformatics Network (H3ABioNet) recognized the need for developing data portals for African genomic medicine and African microbiomes to address this and ran a hackathon to initiate their development. The two portals were designed and significant progress was made in their development during the hackathon. All the participants worked in a very synergistic and collaborative atmosphere in order to achieve the hackathon's goals. The participants were divided into content and technical teams and worked over a period of 6 days. In response to one of the survey qu

SUBMITTER: Fadlelmola FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8052916 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature