This month’s blog was written by Nicola Mulder, Professor and head of the Computational Biology division at the University of Cape Town, and Principal investigator of H3ABioNet, a Pan African bioinformatics network for H3Africa, and Mamana Mbiyavanga, a Bioinformatics Scientist and PhD student at UCT, who contribute to a diverse range of CINECA work packages. This blog is less of a technical report in our Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standards series than the previous 4, and more of a report on how WP6 - ‘Outreach, training and dissemination’ is contributing to developing better implementation of GA4GH standards.
Read MoreThis month’s blog was written by Melanie Courtot, metadata standards coordinator at EMBL-EBI and co-Work Package Lead of CINECA WP3 - Cohort Level Metadata Representation. This blog is the fourth in our Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standards series, presenting an overview of how GA4GH standards are being developed and implemented by CINECA. In our April post about Passport, Mikael from CINECA WP2 explained the importance of controlled-access to protect sensitive data, federated data access in the cloud and how Passport enables researchers to authenticate - prove they are who they say they are.
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