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Bioinformatics is the basis for unprecedented revolutionary discoveries in the Life Sciences field  

Bioinformatics based research glue multidisciplinary teams as demonstrated in the study led by members of  the SLU-Bioinformatics Centre, Uppsala, Sweden. The work clearly shows that discoveries at the genome level in one species can be translated to another using biobank material; in this case from dog samples  to human material. http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006000

Selected references underlying the development of the B3Africa project

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