References

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

Abayomi A, Christoffels A, Grewal R, Karam LA, Rossouw C, Staunton C, et al. (2013). Challenges of biobanking in South Africa to facilitate indigenous research in an environment burdened with human immunodeficiency virus, tuberculosis, and emerging noncommunicable diseases. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 11(6):347–354.