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National Bioinformatics Network (NBN)
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South Africa has recently created a National Bioinformatics Network (NBN) made up of a network of nodes and a central node, each situated at a University. The mission of the NBN is to develop capacity in bioinformatics in South
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Africa, especially among disadvantaged groups, and to perform world-class bioinformatics research.
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The National Bioinformatics Network NBN is an organisation operating under the umbrella of the NBN Trust which has the following Vision, Mission and Objectives:
The vision of the NBN is to place South Africa within ten years in the mainstream of Bioinformatics, then being in a leading position amongst developing nations while benefiting the whole country with all its peoples and its fauna and flora. This vision leads to a two-pronged mission of the NBN namely:
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To provide the information, tools, research, capacity development and solutions to serve the development and exploitation of biotechnology and the advancement of fundamental life sciences in South Africa, and
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To ensure that the rapidly accumulating body of information from molecular and high throughput biology is centralised in the country and available to the South African community in ways which accelerate and promote scientific progress and global competitiveness.
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Four key aspects of the NBN to be supported and guided by the CEO are to
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stimulate and support the adequate growth and development of bioinformatics as a scientific and applied discipline in South Africa at an internationally competitive level;
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build local capacity in this field, especially amongst the previously-disadvantaged groups of society, by providing local and networked opportunities for staff and students from appropriate bioinformatics fields at independently assessed local tertiary and research institutions (called nodes) for:
- truly internationally competitive bioinformatics teaching and training at all academic and technical levels;
- cutting-edge fundamental and applied research that support the ethical basis of Bioinformatics
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create an environment that supports business opportunities for the application of bioinformatics within biotechnology companies, universities and research institutions that will contribute to the economy; and
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support and create research programmes that address appropriate local and regional problems experienced in the environmental, health, agricultural and industrial biotechnology fields.
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